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Ville d'Avray, Woodland Path Bordering the Pond
1872
43.45
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
19-3/4 x 24 in. 27 x 31-3/4 in. (framed)
Accession NumberGift of the Friends of Art
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color PaletteM. O'Douard, 1872. W. Blumenthal, Paris, France. P. Cassirer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Arnold Seligmann-Rey & Co., New York, New York, 1943). given to the the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1943. Provenance research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. If you have questions, or if you have information to share with us, please contact info@discovernewfields.org.
During the first half of his career, Corot created paintings that combined the orderly, rational style of French Neoclassicism with a keen observation of nature that foreshadowed the Barbizon School.
This canvas, however, has the cool tonalities and soft focus of his late work. It was painted at his family property in Ville d'Avray, in the countryside west of Paris. In contrast to Impressionist pictures of the 1870s that show the objective depiction of natural light, Corot's paintings of this era capture an idealized reverie of nature bathed in the silvery light of a dream.
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