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Souvenir: Roman Landscape with the Colosseum

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

National Gallery of Art

The image is a pencil sketch of an open landscape. The horizon line is near the middle, with an outline of a building or ruins on it. The sketch has loose lines, showing movement, especially in the tree branches on the right. The color palette is primarily grayscale. There is a small figure and a dog close to us, providing scale to the natural elements beyond. The sky and distant elements are lightly shaded, serving as a backdrop to the foreground features.

Artwork Details

Date
1865/1870
Medium
charcoal on blue paper
Dimensions
5250 × 3298 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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