Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was most famous for his French landscapes and etchings. The Woman with a Pearl is portrait he created in the third part of his career. Some sources speculate that Corot was inspired by da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to create this portrait of 16-year-old Berthe Goldschmidt. The small leaf standing out on the young girl's brow, formerly thought to be a pearl, gave the picture its title. Corot was a leading painter of the French Barbizon school in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Woman with a Pearl
oil on canvas • 70 × 55 cm
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot