Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009271Pond at Ville-d'Avray
by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Also known as: Ville-d'Avray; Ville-D'Avray, A Peasant Cutting Reeds in a Swamp
About the Artwork
Corot painted this view of a pond near his home at Ville-d'Avray, just west of Paris, in his late style distinguished by soft, hazy forms and gentle, silvery light. Such paintings merge his lifelong study of nature with nostalgic memories and contrast sharply with the more formal compositions and precisely rendered shapes of his early landscapes. Corot's devotion to the direct study of nature was a major influence on the Impressionists.
Inscriptions
Signed in black paint lower right corner: corot
Provenance
after 1919-1944: After 1919 Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss [1865-1944] Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. 1944-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH M. Goupil. J. Quincy Shaw, Boston, MA, by 1917.
Exhibition history
Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956). Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
- Date
- late 1860s
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
- Accession no.
- 1944.80
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