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The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods

The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods

c. 1860–75
(French, 1796–1875)
Unframed: 46 x 61 cm (18 1/8 x 24 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This painting's first recorded owner was the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, née Henrietta-Adela Hope, who became a widow of the sixth duke Henry Pelham Alexander in 1879.

Description

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.
  • 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.
  • Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 156-157, Vol. I, no. 59
  • CMA. (2 March-19 May 1920), no cat.
    Cleveland, Kinney and Levan Building. Illustrated Catalogue of the Cleveland Art Loan Exposition Under the Auspices of the Cleveland School of Art (1913), no. 30c, L'étang à l'entrée du bois, lent by William G. Mather.
  • {{cite web|title=The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods|url=false|author=Jean Baptiste Camille Corot|year=c. 1860–75|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.330