The tape features with basic essays on Camille Corot (1796-1875) as a figure painter's idiosyncratic way of a great artist for up to the threshold of the modern multi-faceted and illustrated with about 30 extensively annotated work samples, the traditions out of which he has developed his site .
Corot's figure paintings has been addressed by the research are often neglected and was completely overshadowed by his landscape painting. Mostly, it was assumed that Corot's figure paintings are only a close circle of friends have been known. There is enough evidence for the strong passion for this important artist for the human figure. Corot painted mainly women, dressed in exotic costumes and they provided it with attributes such as books or musical instruments, so as to arrive at an inflated figure whose inner life of the mood of the whole image speaks
In the center of the tape is the "readers" girls, a striking image from the Oskar Reinhart Collection. It is placed in a context of paintings and drawings by the artist from national and international collections and museums showing the anchoring of the reading subject and give a representative overview of Corot's figure paintings. Crucial turning points in the creativity of the painter Corot figure can be seen that, and it is obvious that he found in the genre in a unique, personal visual language
Significantly in contributions from renowned experts Corot, the artistic traditions that have been developed Corot's figure paintings, and the connections between the characters and the landscape painter Corot.