Sibylle
ArtistCamille Corot
Yearc. 1870
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions81.9 cm × 64.8 cm (32.2 in × 25.5 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession29.100.565

Sibylle is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1870 by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It depicts a model holding a red rose. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

Description

The painting – better described as a portrait – was painted by Corot circa 1870. The work shares stylistic elements with Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, a portrait that was formerly considered to be a self portrait by Raphael, and the Met's description of Sibylle describes the painting as the "height" of Corot's attempts to replicate Raphael's style.[1]

While the title of the painting implies the subject is a Sibyl,[2] others have disputed this.[3]

The painting was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929 as part of the bequest of Louisine Havemeyer.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sibylle". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ↑ Iain Gale. Corot. London, 1994, pp. 124–25, 144, no. 125, ill. (color)
  3. ↑ Edith A. Standen. Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. New York, 1970, p. 76, ill. (color)
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