Souvenirs

works by Corot

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In Camille Corot: Early life and career
…new kind of landscape, the Souvenirs, in which he made compositions out of standardized elements—usually a lake with diaphanous trees painted in an overall silvery tonality—to evoke a mood of gentle melancholy. At the end of his life, he also painted a number of portraits and figure studies, especially of…
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