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Interrupted Reading, c. 1870. Oil on canvas, mounted on board.
Oil on canvas, mounted on board · 92.5 × 65.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Interrupted Reading
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
- Date
- c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 92.5 × 65.1 cm (36 5/16 × 25 5/8 in.); Framed: 130.9 × 104.2 × 14 cm (51 1/2 × 41 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1796–1875
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.