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Pond at Ville-d'Avray

Pond at Ville-d'Avray

late 1860s
(French, 1796–1875)
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.)

Did You Know?

The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape.

Description

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.
  • 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.
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    Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 21-22, cat. no. 3; Reproduced: p. [24], Plate X, cat. no. 3 archive.org
    Francis, Henry S. "Paintings in the Prentiss Bequest." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXI, no.6 (June,1944):87-89. Mentioned: p. 89
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. Reproduced: p. 210, vol. 2
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 169 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 169 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 209 archive.org
    Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979. Reproduced: p. 66
    Matheron, Geneviève. Corot a Ville-d'Avray: decembre 1987, Musée de Ville-D'Avray au château ... : exposition. Ville-d'Avray, France: Le Musée, 1987. Reproduced: fig. 21
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 44
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: 1999. Reproduced: p. 57
  • Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).
    Corot 1796-1875. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1960).
    Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).
    French Art since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1929).
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (July 3, 1917-November 21, 1919).
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