# The Eel Gatherers

By [Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/jean-baptiste-camille-corot.md>), 1860/1865.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 60.5 x 81.5 cm (23 13/16 x 32 1/16 in.) framed: 80 x 106 x 7 cm (31 1/2 x 41 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/30230-eel-gatherers>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Realism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/realism.md>)

## Image

![Four people wearing earthy brown gather near a stream that runs through a lush forest carpeted and filled with moss, pine, and sage green trees and undergrowth, interlaced with thin, willowy tree trunks in this horizontal landscape painting.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-17bae865c0813478/full.jpg?v=c85a7f9921a8197192d5696c0a42374351c2a40b0e09fa04dda9673ac450f3ea>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. P.H.B. Frelinghuysen in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1943.15.1. CC0 Open Access.
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. P.H.B. Frelinghuysen in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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