Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Ville D’Avray: Boatman on Pond (Evening Effect)
1861
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Ville D’Avray: Boatman on Pond (Evening Effect)
1861
Physical Qualities
Etching, drypoint, Sheet: 126 x 174 mm. (4 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Plate: 77 x 126 mm. (3 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.604
Melot does not describe the accidental scratch mark in the sky, which Delteil uses to distinguish the third, and final, state. Rather, Melot, as well as Robaut, defines the third state as published in an edition of 200 for the book "Edmond Roche, Poésies posthumes (Paris: M. Lévy, 1863)"
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Dr. Kurt Lederer, The Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD, "Barbizon Print Show," c. March 9 - April 9, 1964.
BMA, "Corot: Prelude to Impressionism," October 19, 1991- January 19, 1992.
BMA, "After Rembrandt: The Influence of Dutch Art on Nineteenth-Century French Printmaking," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
BMA, "Corot: Prelude to Impressionism," October 19, 1991- January 19, 1992.
BMA, "After Rembrandt: The Influence of Dutch Art on Nineteenth-Century French Printmaking," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
Inscribed: Signed in plate: upper right "COROT" Inscribed in pencil: along bottom, in Lucas' hand "3e Etat - No. 3125 - L'etang avec un batelier & une vache"
Markings: Watermark: wreathed shield (unidentified)
