Corot creates a sensation at the Salon…

1835 CE

Corot creates a sensation at the Salon with his biblical painting Agar dans le desert (Hagar in the wilderness), which depicts Hagar, Sarah’s handmaiden, and the child Ishmael, dying of thirst in the desert until saved by an angel.

The background is likely derived from an Italian study.

Corot’s had visited northern Italy, Venice, and again the Roman countryside during his two return trips to Italy.

This time, Corot’s unanticipated bold, fresh statement of the Neoclassical ideal succeeds with the critics.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Hagar in the wilderness (1835) 180.3 × 270.5 cm (71 × 106.5 in) Metropolitan Museum of Ar

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Hagar in the wilderness (1835) 180.3 × 270.5 cm (71 × 106.5 in) Metropolitan Museum of Ar

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