The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods (c. 1860–75): Art, History and Details

The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods (c. 1860–75) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods
• Date: c. 1860–75
• Creator attribution: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Unframed: 46 x 61 cm (18 1/8 x 24 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1951.330

A detail from the museum

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.

Collection credit

Bequest of William G. Mather

Further reading listed by the museum

• Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.

View the collection record

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