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| Keywords: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Evening Star - Walters 37154.jpg In the 1850s Corot began to paint works that he sometimes referred to as souvenirs in which he tried not only to record his visual experience of a site but also to convey the sensations it evoked Corot was inspired to paint this poetic composition after listening to a young woman singing verses from Alfred de Musset's poem The Willow A Fragment 1830 in which the evening star is hailed as a distant messenger After watching Corot paint a much larger version of the subject now in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse France William T Walters commissioned this smaller variation It differs slightly from the artist's initial conception in its looser brushwork and duskier sky 1864 oil on canvas cm 71 90 ; Framed cm 102 2 120 7 12 7 accession number 37 154 938 William T Walters city Baltimore received by 1865 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Commissioned by William T Walters 1864 Signature Lower left COROT Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 The Road to Impressionism Landscapes from Corot to Manet The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2004-2005 Déjà Vu Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix 2007-2008 The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 Corot Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon 'Les amis de la nature' Corot Courbet and the Painters from Barbizon Haus der Kunst Munich 1996 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 place of origin France <gallery> File Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Evening Star - Walters 37154 2 jpg </gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D Landscape paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1860s landscape paintings 1860s paintings from France 1864 paintings | ||||
