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The Paver of the Chailly Road, Fontainbleau
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corotca. 1830 - 1835
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Memphis, United States
Details
- Title: The Paver of the Chailly Road, Fontainbleau
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Creator Lifespan: 1796 - 1875
- Creator Nationality: French
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Ville d'Avray, France
- Creator Birth Place: Paris, France
- Date: ca. 1830 - 1835
- Location: Fontainbleau, France
- Physical Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 17 3/8 inches
- Description: The Forest of Fontainebleau, with its beautifully varied landscape and easy accessibility from Paris, attracted Camille Corot and many other artists in the early nineteenth century. Gathering in the small village of Barbizon on the edge of the forest, they became known as the Barbizon School. Corot’s view of the Chailly Road, one of the primary routes for accessing the forest, displays the deft and rapid brushwork necessary for painting outdoors, which would prove so influential to artists a generation younger. The man paving the road in the foreground speaks to the Barbizon School’s attraction to scenes of simple laboring people. But as the son of merchants, Corot may have recognized that this particular laborer was contributing directly to his own prosperity. The paver helped make the forest an even more accessible destination for leisure travelers and thereby increased interest in paintings that depicted its picturesque woodlands.
- Provenance: Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo N. Dixon
- Type: Oil paintings
- Rights: Dixon Gallery and Gardens. For Terms and Conditions for use of this image please contact the Registrar at 901-761-5250.
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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