Ville d’Avray: l'étang au bâtelier

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Ville d’Avray: l'étang au bâtelier

Artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

Date1862

Dimensions3 1/8 × 5 in. (7.9 × 12.7 cm)

Mediumetching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J.K. Hamilton, Toledo as a memorial to Mr. & Mrs. Edward Allen

Object number

1915.13

Not on View

Label TextAssociated with the Barbizon school of landscape painting, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s interests developed increasingly toward the “poetic landscape.” He preferred to paint at twilight, and his work is considered the least realistic of the Barbizon school. Corot experimented with printmaking when he had access to the materials and to a printer. In 1825 he traveled to Italy. The quality of light he experienced there influenced his art. In his landscapes, space is flattened into simple areas of shimmering lights and darks. Although Corot etched superbly, he showed very little interest in the printing process. He etched on whatever surface was near at hand—copper plates, glass plates coated with light-sensitive collodion (cliché verre), or even transfer paper—and rarely supervised the processing and printing of the images. In old age he was revered as ‘Père Corot,’ father of the Parisian artistic community.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Barbizon School Masters and Prints by Jules Jacquemart, December 1964 through June 1965. TMA, Storytelling in Miniature, October 7, 2011-March 4, 2012.