Cleveland Museum of Art
Pond at Ville-d'Avray
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
- Date
- late 1860s
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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