Fishing boats in Granville

Date: c. 1860
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: private collection
Dimensions: 23.5 x 32

The painting represens fishing boats, which contrast sharply with the pale azure water surface. By far it is not the only one on which Corot portrays the theme of water. On the contrary, the water can be found almost on every his landscape painting. The artist has a very specific and credible way of painting shiny surface and its ability to portray it step by step improves. Take the example of Church Marissel of 1866, where we can see a beautiful mirror reflection of the surrounding greenery and the cloudy sky, or Riverside of 1870. Also the displaying of ship Corot to painting merchants of Rouen 1834 his sails are very skillfully painted, while the water would certainly look better in the later years.

Prevailing color of this fine art print is blue and its shape is landscape. Original size is 23.5 x 32. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). French landscape painter. Corot was the leading artistic figure of the Barbizon school of painting in France in the mid-19th century. He was a central figure in landscape painting. His work is characterized by a simultaneous connection of neoclassicism and the beginning of open-air impressionism. It was in reference to him that Claude Monet exclaimed: There is only one artist - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing. Equally important is Corot’s contribution to figural painting - Degas even preferred Corot’s figures to his landscapes. The figural motifs painted by Picasso in the classic style are considered Picasso’s homage to Corot’s style. Historians loosely divide his work into different periods, but the boundaries are not specified, which was also contributed to by Corot’s custom of finishing paintings sometimes even years after beginning them.
Corot’s approach to landscape is far more traditional than it would seem. When comparing his later paintings of trees with some compositions of Claude Lorrain, such as those exhibited in the Bridgewater gallery, the similarity in technique is striking. In addition to landscapes, of which Corot painted several hundred (the most popular were those painted at a later date), Corot created a number of highly acclaimed figurative paintings. Mostly curtly cartoons, these are paintings created in the studio with the intention of keeping them as private property rather than selling them. Yet many of them have a great composition, and the colours are in any case remarkable for their strength and purity.