Art, literature & history
Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres)
1874
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph on yellow paper
- Collection no.
- 1946.21.233
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres) — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. 1874.
Medium: lithograph on yellow paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1946.21.233. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.