A Torrent at Romagnes, after 1862, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French, 1796 - 1875, 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. ( x cm) (canvas), Oil on canvas, France, 19th century, France was defeated, broken in body and spirit, at the end of the bloody Franco-Prussian War in 1871. The comfort and beauty of landscape paintings was a balm, a boost to morale. Jules Castagnary, a critic at the time, commented, 'Landscape remains the strength and glory of our French school. Although the jury went through it like a plow through a green field, there are still enough beautiful examples

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