Pond at Ville-d'Avray
late 1860s
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Pond at Ville-d'Avray, late 1860s. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875). Oil on fabric; framed: 87 x 127 x 11 cm (34 1/4 x 50 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 58.1 x 99.4 cm (22 7/8 x 39 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.80 The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape.
- Maker/Artist
- Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 87 x 127 x 11 cm (34 1/4 x 50 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 58.1 x 99.4 cm (22 7/8 x 39 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed in black paint lower right corner: corot
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1944.80
- Credit Line
- Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
- Exhibitions
- Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter, Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (July 3, 1917-November 21, 1919)., <em>French Art since Eighteen Hundred</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1929)., <em>Corot 1796-1875</em>. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1960).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 220 19th Century European
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