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The Blast
  • TitleThe Blast
  • Technique/ MaterialOil on canvas
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 81 x 100 cm
    Frame: (h x b x dj) 104 x 123 x 6 cm
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Camille Jean Baptiste Corot, French, born 1796, dead 1875
  • CategoryPaintings, Paintings
  • Inventory No.NM 2383
  • AcquisitionPurchase 1922 with Richard Bergh’s endowment
  • Description
    Artist/Maker
    Images and media

    Vindstöten (The gust of wind) was one of the works found in Corot’s studio after his death and sold at a large auction. It was bought by Swedish landscape painter Carl Fredrik Hill, a great admirer of Corot. In the final decades of his life Corot painted more expressively. The incomplete and sketch-like character has, however, made many connoisseurs question whether Corot himself actually painted it.