Throughout his adult life, Corot spent part of each year at the family property in Ville- d'Avray in the environs of Paris. The landscapes painted there in the 1860s and 1870s views of wooded glades delicately modeled in dull greens, browns, and an exquisite range of silvery grays, all veiled in misty light--won him considerable success during his lifetime. The popularity of such works as this may be related in part to the nostalgia for an arcadian past that was so much a part of contemporary French literature. Corot's late works reflect a vision of nature that combines a classicist's sense of serene order with a romantic's mood of reverie.

Provenance:

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 

Accession Number:

87.15.141