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Hagar in the Wilderness

Artist: Camille Corot French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris
Date: 1835
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 71 x 106 1/2 in. (180.3 x 270.5 cm)
Where to see it: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rogers Fund, 1938 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗

Slow Look

The whole picture Let your eyes wander. Where do they want to rest?
The light Find the brightest spot. What is it showing you?
The edges Look at what is half cut off at the borders.
One small detail Choose one tiny thing and stay with it for a while.
The whole picture again Step back. Has it changed for you?

About Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

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