Ville d'Avray: Boat Under the Willows (Morning Effect)
Camille Corot
1857
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
Plate: 3 1/16 in. × 5 in. (7.8 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 × 5 1/2 in. (9.5 × 14 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.42
Tags
RiversLandscapesTreesBoats
About the Artist
Camille Corot · 1796–1875
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born in Paris on July 16, 1796, into a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig maker turned draper, his mother a successful milliner—initially resisted his artistic calling. After a lackluster education at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen and failed apprenticeships in business, he abandoned commerce at age 26, thanks to a generous parental allowance foll...