Description
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.
Provenance
(Probably Goupil Gallery, New York, NY) ca. 1871-72, sold to Bernhard Stern) (?1871-1872); Bernhard Stern, New York, NY (by 1872-1890); (American Art Galleries, New York, NY, Stern and Evans collections, March 6. 1890, lot 125, sold to Knoedler & Co.) (1890); (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, April 12, 1890, sold to Jeptha Homer Wade Jr.) (1890); Mr. J.H. Wade, Jr. [1957-1926] and Mrs. J. H.Wade, Jr. [1859-1917], Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1890-1916); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1916-)
Accession Number
1916.1047
Medium
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.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade