Femme Lisant is a 1869

1869 in art

-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Wine Shop*Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Femme Lisant *Gustave Courbet - The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm...

 painting by French

France

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 artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century...

. The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 in New York City

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The painting depicts a woman reading; in the distance is a man in a boat. Corot, whose reputation was made as a landscape painter, painted many images of solitary, pensive women in his later years. Femme Lisant, which was shown at the Salon

Paris Salon

The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...

of 1869, is the only one of them that he exhibited in his lifetime.