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, French, 1796-1875
Title
An Interior of a Barn
Date1874
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
48 x 72 cm
Signedlower right: 1874 Corot
Credit LinePresented, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, 1950
Object numberNGI.4218
Exhibition HistoryFrench 19th and 20th Century Paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland: Corot to Picasso, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 5 September-17 September 1996; Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, 10 October-22 October 1996; Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, 26 October-2 December 1996; Daimaru Museum, Umeda,Osaka, 22 January-9 February 1997; Aomori Municpal Gallery of Art, Aomori, 2 April-20 April 1997

Chester Beatty: The Paintings, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 7 September 2012 - 31 August 2013; The Hunt Museum, Limerick, 1 February - 30 March 2014

Von Poussin bis Monet. Die Farben Frankreichs, The Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 22 March - 6 September 2015; Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 10 October 2015 - 17 January 2016

Label TextCorot painted this picture at the age of seventy-eight. It is one of his final works. Although he painted many portraits during his long career, Corot’s main interest was in landscapes. He executed hundreds of landscapes in styles that varied from Neoclassical to Impressionistic. This barn interior is an unusual subject for the artist. However, the horizontal brush strokes used to convey straw in the foreground are characteristic of Corot’s work. He often used similar wispy marks in his landscapes to convey a sense of movement and light.