Pond at Ville-d'Avray
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 58.1 × 99.4 cm · framed: 87 × 127 × 11 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
Accession Number
1944.80
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.