Example sentences for: corot

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  • Then, in 1835, after his return to France, Corot painted his Old Testament scene Hagar in the Wilderness --the first major painting in the Met show--which portrayed Ishmael and his mother dying of thirst in the desert.

  • The sheer profusion of these two exhibitions, with their welcome mix of the familiar and the little-known, should prompt a much-needed reassessment of Corot's subtle art.

  • In smaller-scale works Corot wrought changes on a variety of more secular riparian subjects: ferrymen, fishermen, women washing laundry or tossing each other playfully into the current.

  • The show places Corot in the company of an international cast of painters--including the little-known Welsh painter Thomas Jones, who produced some astonishing studies of moldering Neapolitan walls, with drying laundry dangling from balconies--all of whom worked outdoors in Rome and its environs from the 1780s to about 1840.

  • When you support the Annual Campaign, your contribution affects every area Museum operations from grounds, building maintenance, and security to educational programs and touring exhibitions like Corot to Picasso.


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