The Bridge at Narni
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Musée du Louvre, Paris |
The Bridge at Narni (
Musée du Louvre in Paris
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It was painted in September 1826 and was the basis for the larger and more finished View at Narni, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1827 and is in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The view was not a novel one: in 1821 Corot's teacher,
plein air
painting objectives:
So deeply did Corot admire Claude and Poussin, so fully did he understand their work, that from the outset he viewed nature in their terms....In less than a year (since his arrival in Rome) he had realized his goal of closing the gap between the empirical freshness of outdoor painting and the organizing principles of classical landscape composition.[1]
References
- ^ Galassi, Peter, Corot in Italy, page 168-70. Yale University Press, 1991.