Detail of The Letter by Corot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)

Title: The Letter

Date: ca. 1865

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (54.6 x 36.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number: 29.160.33


Gallery Label:

The motif and handling in this work reflect an awareness of seventeenth-century Dutch painting, particularly Vermeer and de Hooch, whose works Corot could have seen during a trip to Holland in 1854. This picture was probably painted around the time Vermeer's art was enjoying a revival of interest.

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