Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras (1871): Art, History and Details

Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras (1871) 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:

With its quiet water and sky, fluffy trees, and other foliage flecked with light, this picture exemplifies the style that won Corot success with a wide public. It was painted during the artist's stay at Arras (about 100 miles north of Paris) in 1871.

Object facts

• Title: Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras
• Date: 1871
• Creator attribution: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 59.4 x 72.1 x 9 cm (23 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 36.3 x 44.4 cm (14 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1916.1047

A detail from the museum

Corot began his career as a draper and his exposure to the colors and textures of fabrics helped him develop an astute aesthetic sense.

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Robaut, Alfred, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Œuvre de Corot. Paris, France: H. Floury, 1905.
• Warner, Langdon. "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art IV, no. 1 (January, 1917):3-8.
• Milliken, William. "The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34 (June 13, 1936): 7-14.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.