Description

Camille Corot’s View of Lormes is a luminous oil sketch, painted en plein air in the Morvan region of Burgundy. With swift, confident brushwork, Corot captures a panoramic sweep of the countryside, where a village nestles gently into the rolling hills. The composition is unusually wide, evoking a sense of quiet expanse and rural stillness. Though rapidly executed, the work conveys Corot’s deep sensitivity to atmosphere and light, foreshadowing the tonal poetry of his later landscapes.