A Woman Reading
Camille Corot
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 28.90
- Credit
- Gift of Louise Senff Cameron, in memory of her uncle, Charles H. Senff, 1928
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1875. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A young woman in a blue blouse and full brown skirt sits in a grassy field, her cheek resting on one hand, reading a small book open in her lap. Behind her a pale river and a distant shore stretch under a grey-blue sky.
- Image
- 1108 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009037
coldlibrary.com/g/009037 - Credit line
- Camille Corot, A Woman Reading, 1869 and 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009037
Corot was a landscape painter, but in later life he also painted figures, and he exhibited this one in 1869 and then kept working on it. She reads outdoors, wholly absorbed, and the landscape behind her seems to keep still so as not to disturb her.
