France, 19th century / late 1860s
Pond at Ville-d'Avray
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Pond at Ville-d'Avray as painting (France, 19th century · late 1860s).
The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape.
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The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875).
The museum's collection notes: 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.
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