Cachoeira em Terni, Itália (Waterfall at Terni) - Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

 

Cachoeira em Terni, Itália (Waterfall at Terni) - Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Terni - Itália
Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Nova York, Estados Unidos
Óleo sobre papel - 26x30 - 1826


Painters visited Rome and the surrounding countryside to record the natural beauty of the scenery and its antique monuments. The Cascata delle Marmore combines both, having been engineered in the third century B.C. to divert the river Velino into the Nera, a tributary of the Tiber. Corot visited the waterfall in summer 1826, attaining a mastery of plein-air technique that is characterized by the candor, naturalism, and seemingly intuitive structure of this sketch. Corot did not exhibit such informal works, but he tried to infuse the paintings he began to show at the Salon the following year with the same vigorous sensibility.