Ville d’Avray
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 10 × 16.3 cm (3 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.) plate: 13 × 19.3 cm (5 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 14.5 × 21 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend
Accession Number
2021.113.43
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of, where *Ville d’Avray* (1876) invites you into the tranquil landscapes beloved by Jean-Baptiste-Cam Corot. This delicate etching by Maxime Lalanne reproduces one of Corot’s iconic scenes of the village near Paris, where the artist owned a home and captured nature’s quiet poetry from the 1850s onward. Corot, a master of the Barbizon school bridging Romanticism and Realism, rendered these views with soft light and atmospheric depth, evoking a sense of timeless serenity. Crafted as an etching on laid paper—a traditional medium with its characteristic chain line...