# Waterfall at Terni

**Jean Baptiste Camille Corot** (French, 1796–1875)  
1826  
Oil on paper, laid down on wood  
10 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (26.7 x 30.8 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.42.13. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438635).

## About this work

The waterfall at Terni, a celebrated cascade in Umbria visited by generations of travellers, is the subject of this small oil study on paper. Corot made it in 1826, during his first stay in Italy, when he worked outdoors directly from nature, setting down the essentials of light, mass and colour quickly before conditions changed. Such sketches were meant as private studies, but today they are admired as some of the freshest landscapes of their century.

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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot painted this in 1826, aged 30. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Jean Baptiste Camille Corot](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-baptiste-camille-corot)

French, 1796–1875; born in Paris; died in Paris

Corot trained with the landscape painters Achille-Etna Michallon and Jean-Victor Bertin, then spent 1825–28 in Italy, where his small oil sketches of Rome and the Campagna caught its clear light with great economy. He returned to Italy twice and travelled widely in France. His Salon pictures moved from classical landscape to the silvery, misty reveries that made him famous in the 1850s and 1860s, and late in life he painted thoughtful figure studies of models in costume.

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## Facts

- Type: Paintings
- The artist was 30
- Real size: about 11 × 12 in (27 × 31 cm). Closest to life size: the 11 × 14 in print.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Waterfalls
- Colour: black
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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