Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009772The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods
About the Artwork
This scene of a pond bordered by large, leafy trees echoes Corot's well-known views of Ville-d'Avray, while the vaporous light and atmospheric effects within a restricted palette resemble those of the artist's late style of the 1860s and 1870s. The small forms of the peasant and white goat are also typical of Corot's late imagery. This is one of many views of a large pond at Ville-d'Avray, a small commune on the western suburbs of Paris, where Corot inherited a rural property from his parents.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left in dark brown paint: corot
Provenance
Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, widow of the sixth duke. Arnold & Tripp, Paris. Henry Reinhardt, dealer, Chicago. Purchased from him in December 1910 by William G. Mather, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1951.
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
- c. 1860–75
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 46 x 61 cm (18 1/8 x 24 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of William G. Mather
- Accession no.
- 1951.330
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