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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Ville d'Avray, rosée du matin shows a view from the back of Corot's house towards Paris. He made numerous pictures with a Ville d'Avray motif. However, few, like this one, are specific topographical records. A tour-de-force of naturalistic painting, the soft colouring of the picture indicates it was executed in dawn light, as the title states. Corot's use of unusually wet paint and a cardboard support suggest it was painted rapidly, perhaps so as to capture a fleeting moment in time before the light changed. The paint has been applied thinly and scraped in places to describe detail, allowing the support to show through as a colour. The handling of the brighter foreground colours recall Corot's earliest, sun-drenched Italian landscapes, while his treatment of the distant view of Paris on the horizon line, recalls Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes' handling of paint in his View of Rome seen at Dawn in the Louvre, in which the slightest touches fluid of pigment are enough to indicate a building or tree on the horizon. Ville d'Avray, rosée du matin remained in Corot's studio until his death, suggesting he used it as reference for more ambitious works. | Subjects: | France) landscape; place (Ville d'Avray | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (French painter and draftsman, 1796-1875) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8404... | Go to resource |
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