Ville d'Avray: Pathway at the Pond (Ville-d'Avray: Chemin au bord de l'étang)

Ville d'Avray: Pathway at the Pond (Ville-d'Avray: Chemin au bord de l'étang)

1865-70
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French, 1796-1875
Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
1958.117
Credit Line
Gift of the Lawrence C. Phipps Foundation

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Ville d'Avray: Pathway at the Pond (Ville-d'Avray: Chemin au bord de l'étang), 186570. Oil paint on canvas; 20 ×  37 in. (53 × 94 cm).  Gift of the Lawrence C. Phipps Foundation, 1958.117

Dimensions
image height: 20.875 in, 53.0225 cm; image width: 37 in, 93.9800 cm; frame height: 30 3/4 in, 78.1050 cm; frame width: 40 7/8 in, 103.8225 cm; frame depth: 2.75 in, 6.9850 cm
Inscription
[lower left] Corot
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Camille Corot French, 1796–1875 Ville d'Avray: Pathway at the Pond 1865–70 Oil paint on canvas Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Lawrence C. Phipps Foundation, 1958.117
Known Provenance
M. Guibert until at least 1878. Miss C. R. Stillman. (Scott and Fowles), New York. Senator Lawrence C. Phipps [1862–1958], Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, CA; Lawrence C. Phipps Foundation; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1958.
Exhibition History
  • "Exposition de l’oeuvre de Corot"—L’Ècole des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1875, no. 167
  • "Exposition retrospective de tableaux et dessins des maîtres modernes"—Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris 1878 (no. 75)
  • "Painting in Paris, 1840-1950"—Denver Art Museum, 01/30/1993 - 05/30/1993
  • Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 07/30/1993 - 09/12/1993
  • Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 09/17/1993 - 11/28/1993
  • "Corot: Nature, Emotion, Souvenir"—Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 06/07/2005 - 09/11/2005
  • Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy, 10/9/2005 - 1/8/2006
  • "Changing Landscapes: Themes in 19th Century French and American Painting"—Denver Art Museum, 08/13/2011 - 02/05/2012
  • "Nature as Muse: Impressionist Landscapes from the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection and the Denver Art Museum"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013 - 02/09/2014