entitled Gypsy Woman with Mandolin (circa 1870), by the 19th-century French landscape and portrait painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The researchers used three complementary techniques to ...

Coming full circle, Corot towards the end of his life in the late 1860s and early 1870s depicted his models in studio settings with a hand touching one of his landscapes and the other holding a ...

Not every painting in Corot: Women possesses such climactic energy. “Woman with a Large Toque and a Mandolin” (c. 1850-55), for instance, shows the artist distracted by a rare urge to overwork ...

Corot’s “The Repose” was painted in 1860 ... Also in two versions (though not the same ones) a mandolin dangles from the woman’s right hand. In somewhat the same vein as Vermeer’s ...