Pond at Ville-d'Avray

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Pond at Ville-d'Avray

Jean Baptiste Camille CorotLinkedCulture matchlcp-8336033d567b

Date
late 1860s
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
124078

Corot painted this view of a pond near his home at Ville-d'Avray, just west of Paris, in his late style distinguished by soft, hazy forms and gentle, silvery light. Such paintings merge his lifelong study of nature with nostalgic memories and contrast sharply with the more formal compositions and precisely rendered shapes of his early landscapes. Corot's devotion to the direct study of nature was a major influence on the Impressionists. The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape.

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Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
Provenance
after 1919-1944: After 1919 Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss [1865-1944] Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. | 1944-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | M. Goupil. J. Quincy Shaw, Boston, MA, by 1917.

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