Word: corots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corot and Daumier (October 1930), including the first loans ever made by the Louvre and Berlin's National Gallery to a U. S. museum...
...artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier's power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated, have lived since. Because he was a great humanitarian as well as a great draughtsman, his work, like that of Goya, has had its significance renewed in a post-War era as turbulent...
...Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above all others he wished to imitate. Kindly, aging Jean Baptiste Corot took the young Virgin Islander as a pupil...
...first Watteau painting. For $250,000 the Metropolitan in 1870, the year it was founded, could have bought every Watteau extant. Even in the last few years $250,000 would have bought two good Rembrandts, an El Greco, a couple of Gainsboroughs, several Rubens, at least one Goya, one Corot, and one Cézanne...
...16th to the 19th Century, they were able to find in their vaults such impressive masterpieces as a St. Jerome in the Wilderness by Paolo Veronese, a murky Spanish scene by Murillo. a rainy day in the English hills by Gainsborough, not to mention Constables, Cromes, and a fine Corot of the best period. The show represented a great deal of money, but critics and visitors neglected it for the corridor and side rooms where were displayed over 200 sketches, landscape drawings, archeological studies, costume plates, water colors and oil portraits by a remarkable young woman named Angna Enters...