Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 
"Bacchanal at the Spring: Souvenir of Marly-le-Roi"
"La Bacchanale" (also known as "Bacchanal at the Spring: Souvenir of Marly-le-Roi") by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot depicts a forest clearing with figures dancing, ,lounging, and playing instruments, evoking a sense of festivity and merriment characteristic of bacchanalia. 
Custom Framed in a silver frame with a linen liner
Framed Size : 25" x 29"
Image Size: 20" x 24"
Printed by Shorewood Reproductions, Inc.
Framed in the USA
Hanging hardware included on back of frame
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Location: The original painting is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot  (1796 - 1875)
 
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot  or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical  tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. 
Born in Paris on 17 July 1796, Corot was the son of a cloth merchant and a milliner. After an education at the Collège de Rouen and two abortive apprenticeships with drapers, he was given the financial freedom at the age of 26 to devote himself to painting.
He first studied with the landscapist Achille Etna Michallon and after his death with Jean-Victor Bertin  (around 1767 to 1842), both pupils of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.  In 1825 to 1828 Corot made the trip to Italy considered so essential to the formation of a landscape artist, spending time in Rome and the Campagna, before travelling to Naples. In 1827 he sent his first paintings to the Paris Salon: View at Narni (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada) and Roman Campagna (Zurich, Kunsthaus).
Corot returned to Italy in 1834 and 1843. He also travelled extensively in France, to Normandy, Provence, the Morvan region in Burgundy, to which he returned for many years, and to north-east France in 1871 during the Commune. In 1854 he travelled in Holland and Belgium; he regularly visited Switzerland, and in 1862 he was in London.
During these trips Corot painted in the open air and filled numerous notebooks with drawings. His early oil sketches, such as those painted in Italy, were clearly defined and fresh, using bright colours in fluid strokes. During the winter months he worked in the studio on ambitious mythological and religious landscapes destined for the salon. Hagar in the Wilderness (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), exhibited at the salon of 1835, is characteristic of his early work, and, like his open-air studies, features the clear-cut forms and colours of academic painting.