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Ville-d'Avray

1870
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 803

Corot often painted views of the large pond on the property he had inherited from his parents at Ville-d'Avray. In repeating the scene, he took certain liberties, especially with the tree just left of center. The silhouette of branches and foliage against the pewter sky led Corot's biographer Alfred Robaut to liken this work to a spider's web. Corot initially included a child with outstretched arms beside the crouching peasant woman, but he seems to have found this detail too anecdotal. Critics admired the calm poetry of this composition when it was first exhibited at the 1870 Salon.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Ville-d'Avray
  • Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)
  • Date: 1870
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 21 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (54.9 x 80 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
  • Object Number: 87.15.141
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Landscape, Camille Corot French, Fixative over charcoal highlighted by erasures on tan wove paper
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Camille Corot
1855–75(?)
Gessate in the Province of Milan, Camille Corot French, Pencil on off-white wove paper
Gessate in the Province of Milan
Camille Corot
1834
Souvenir of the Villa Pamphili
Camille Corot
1871
Italian Landscape (recto); Rocks and foliage (verso), Camille Corot French, Pen and brown ink over graphite
Italian Landscape (recto); Rocks and foliage (verso)
Camille Corot
ca. 1826–27

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