A Path under the Trees in Spring
Camille Corot, 1870
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
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This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
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About the work
- Artist
- Camille Corot
- Date
- 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55,2 cm (alto) x 41,1 cm (ancho)
- Collection
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
- Print up to
- 50 × 70 cm
- Reference
- XDV-0541
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Corot paints the forest as a corridor closing in on itself: the trunks lean in from both sides until they almost meet above, leaving barely a thread of sky between them. Below, a woman with two children walks towards a solitary figure who has paused further ahead, where the light opens up again. The Met dates the work to around 1870–73, without further precision, and notes that Corot was still pursuing effects of natural light here, with loose, abbreviated brushstrokes in the foliage. Does the figure in the background wait for the family, or simply pass by without their paths crossing?
