Sibylle (painting)

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 City
Accession	29.100.565

Sibylle is a 19th-century painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Done in oil on canvas, the painting portrays a model holding a red rose. The painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Description

The painting - better described as a portrait - was painting 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

"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] "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)