Sibylle | |
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Artist | Camille Corot |
Year | c. 1870 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 81.9 cm × 64.8 cm (32.2 in × 25.5 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Accession | 29.100.565 |
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.
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]