At the center of Corot’s View Near Naples is a summery rustic picnic in a grassy field above the Bay of Naples. Two couples have come for a holiday to eat, drink, sing, and dance. Despite the title’s location, the landscape is imaginary but based on Corot’s travels in Italy and Claude Lorrain’s Landscape with Dancing Figures (1648 c.), or J.M.W. Turner’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage-Italy (1832).
See Jean Baptiste Camille Corot’s View Near Naples (1841). Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA