The Shepherd

Painting

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Drexel Founding Collection

35: Recto
35

Recto

Name/Title

The Shepherd

Entry/Object ID

35

Category

Painting

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

John D. Lankenau

Notes

Date: 1901 Credit Line: The John D. Lankenau Collection Means of Accession: Bequest

Made/Created

Artist

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Date made

circa 1865

Place

Country

France

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Signature: LR, Corot

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Framed

Height

31 in

Width

22-1/2 in

Dimension Description

Unframed

Height

27-1/2 in

Width

30-1/2 in

Exhibitions

A Legacy of Art, Science & Industry: Highlights from the Collections, Drexel University
Curator Pick of the Month

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Curator Pick of the Month

Label

The Drexel Collection has selected Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s The Shepherd as November’s object of the month. Corot was trained in the French classical tradition of landscape painting founded by Nicholas Poussin. His goal as an artist was to raise the level of landscape painting to that of high art in the eyes of the critics and he was a forerunner of the Barbizon School, although not officially a part of it. He was considered to be the greatest landscape painter of his time, with an extremely long career spanning several different styles. He often included figures in his landscapes in an effort to draw the viewer into the painting, highlighting them with bright spots of color in the clothing, such as the red kerchief on the shepherd.

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

As an artist, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s goal was to raise the level of landscape painting to that of high art in the eyes of the Salons. He was a forerunner of the Barbizon School, although not officially part of it. He was considered the greatest landscape painter of his time, with an extremely long career spanning several different styles, from large history paintings to Romanticism to the beginnings of Impressionism.

General Notes

Note

Picture Gallery label: "Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, one of the most important landscape artists of the 19th Century, remained faithful to 17th century traditional French painting. Corot often included people in his landscapes to draw the viewer into the painting." "Corot was trained in the French classical tradition of landscape painting founded by Nicholas Poussin and differed from the artists of the Barbizon School. He did not idealize nature but rather, represented it realistically. He often included a person in his landscapes in an effort to draw the viewer into the painting." From an archived label (ES 3/5/2014)