Ville d'Avray: Boatman on a Pond (Evening Effect)
1862
Medium
Etching and drypoint; second state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 3 1/16 × 5 1/16 in. (7.8 × 12.8 cm) Sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 5/16 in. (11.5 × 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Fuller, 1957
Accession Number
57.602.9
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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...