Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest (1842): Art, History and Details

Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest (1842) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Camille Corot painted this charming woodland scene during the summer of 1842 while visiting Lormes, a small village in the Morvan region of Burgundy. The area was known for its dense woodlands and picturesque falls. Corot included a seated goat shepherd leaning against a curving tree trunk, but instead of commanding the viewers attention, the human presence is overshadowed by the dynamic interlacing forms of the tree trunks and branches that stretch up and across the canvas.

Object facts

• Title: Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest
• Date: 1842
• Creator attribution: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Unframed: 52.3 x 70.3 cm (20 9/16 x 27 11/16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1962.35

A detail from the museum

Claude Monet once said: "There is only one master here—Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing."

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Talbot, William S. “Some French Landscapes: 1779-1842.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 3 (March 1978): 75–91.
• Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.

View the collection record

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