Paintings
Pond at Ville-d'Avray
Painting
Details
- Author / creator
- Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- late 1860s
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 87 × 127 × 11 cm; Unframed: 58.1 × 99.4 cm
- Support
- Other
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hartley Bequest, 1944
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Oil on fabric
Signature and marks
Signed in black paint lower right corner: corot
