In about 1830 it was Jean Baptiste Camille Corot who was one of the first artists to visit Barbizon, a village on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where the so-called Barbizon school was founded. Many of his studies were done in the open air and in the classical tradition this was in preparation for large historical works. The Chaise-Marie Quarry at Fontainebleau on the other hand, is an independent portrait of an abandoned quarry painted directly from nature. The painting displays an interesting use of colour. Corot supplemented the dominant brown tone with beige and green to give the whole a tonal unity.
| Artist |
Camille Corot
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VIAF
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| Title | The Chaise-Marie Quarry at Fontainebleau |
| Date | 1831 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Fontainebleau TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: COROT |
| location, month and year bottom left: Fontainebleau juin 1831 | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1914-DI |
| Acquisition credit |
bequest
Scribe, Fernand Ghent 1913 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-DI |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/667/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25D1
rock types
Iconclass
25D31 mine Iconclass 25D34 quarry Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H112 rocks Iconclass 25H114 low hill country Iconclass 25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA233 kneeling figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA2711 walking - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 46A170 Labour Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass 61D(BARBIZON) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (BARBIZON) Iconclass 61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass 61E(FONTAINEBLEAU) names of cities and villages (FONTAINEBLEAU) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Barbizon School
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realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 49) |
| Corot / Jean Leymarie. - Genève : Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1979 (p. 43) |
| De school van Barbizon : Franse meesters van de 19de eeuw (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 14.09 - 28.11.1985 ; Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum 14.12.1985 - 23.02.1986 ; Parijs, Insitut Néerlandais, 1986) / John Sillevis, Hans Kraan, Robert Hoozee, Jacques Foucart. - Brussel : Gemeentekrediet, 1985 (p. 135-141) |
| Corot and the art of landscape / Michael Clarke. - New York City : Cross River Press-Publishers, 1991 |
| Corot [s.d.] / Émile Michel. - Paris : Libraire de l'Art, s.d. (p. 77-109) |
| Corot : 1796-1875 (exposition Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 28 février-27 mai 1996 ; Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, 21 juin-22 septembre 1996 ; New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22 octobre 1996-19 janvier 1997) / Vincent Pomarède, Michael Pantazzi, Gary Tinterow. - Paris : Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996 (p. 195-207, 221) |
| De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 59, 62 (ill.), 155 (ill.)) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. (ill. 68), 268) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 14 (ill.), 114-115 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 63 (ill.)) |
| Antwerpen - Brugge - Gent : De musea en hun kunstschatten van Van Eyck tot Magritte ; ontdek het rijke erfgoed in drie Vlaamse steden ; de Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Geert Souvereyns, Till-Holger Borchert, Paul Vandenbroeck. - Dijon : Éditions Faton, 2007 (p. 64-65 (ill.)) |
| Corot dans la lumière du Nord (exposition Douai, musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, 05.10.2013 - 06.01.2014 ; Carcassonne, musée des Beaux-Arts, 21.02 - 21.05.2014) / Marie-Paule Botte, Anne Esnault, Dominique Horbez, Vincent Pomarède. - Milano : SilvanaEditoriale, 2013 |
| Praised and Ridiculed : French Painting 1820-1880 (Exhibition Zürich, Kunsthaus, 10.11.2017 - 28.01.2018) / Sandra Gianfreda, Oskar Bätschmann, Matthias Krüger, Marianne Koos. - Munich : Hirmer Verlag, 2017 (p. 60, cat. 5) |
| Plein air : de Corot à Monet (exposition Giverny, musée des impressionnismes Giverny, 27.03 - 28.06.2020) / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Beatrice Avanzi, Marie-Pierre Salé, Sylvie Patry. - Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2020 ; Paris : Musée des Impressionnismes, 2020 (p. 134, cat. 51) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| De vrienden rond het museum : Het Gentse kunstnetwerk in relatie tot de collectieuitbreiding van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (1870-1914) / Julie Landuyt. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 190) |
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