Sibylle (painting)

Sibylle
Sibylle
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

Last updated March 15, 2025

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 2 "Sibylle". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
↑ Iain Gale. Corot. London, 1994, pp. 124–25, 144, no. 125, ill. (color)
↑ 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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[:0-1] 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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