Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot ca. between 1868(1868) and 1870(1870)
Oil on canvas
70 ?? 55 cm (27.6 ?? 21.7 in)
cjr The Woman with a Pearl (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.