Keywords: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Study for Saint Sebastian - Walters 371286.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot This watercolor has traditionally been seen as a study for Corot's painting Saint Sebastian Succored by Holy Women Walters 37 192 but the composition has a sense of completeness that suggests it is in fact a later variant The watercolor is also more slender than the painting while the foliage at left has been reduced and the rise of land to the right eliminated Corot very rarely worked in watercolor preferring pencil and pen and ink in his early linear drawings and charcoal in his later more tonal works Although Corot produced few watercolors he displays in Saint Sebastian a mastery of the medium He built up his surfaces with layers of diaphanous washes of grays and browns while his muted tones comparable to those in his late paintings are offset by touches of brighter color such as the green leaves of the foliage the yellow of the distant ground and the pinks of the foreground figures Corot retains the arched format of the original painting composition ca 1867 en watercolor and graphite underdrawing on cream moderately thick slightly textured wove paper cm 25 13 9 accession number 37 1286 9373 William T Walters Baltimore March 2 1884 by purchase George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1884 bottom left COROT in brown watercolor The Essence of Line Corot 1796-1875 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 1946 From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 Corot Royal Scottish Academy of Painting Edinburgh 1965 A Supple Brush The Flowering of Continental Watercolors The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 Christian Imagery in French Nineteenth Century Art 1789-1906 The Shepherd Gallery New York 1980 A Connoisseur's Portfolio French Masterworks on Paper The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1992 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D DEFAULTSORT Corot 1867 Study Of Saint Sebastian Drawings in the Walters Art Museum ~ PAGENAME Watercolor paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1867 Study Of Saint Sebastian Drawings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1867 Study Of Saint Sebastian Scenes from the life of Saint Sebastian 1867 drawings 1860s watercolor paintings A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line |