Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras — About This Work
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, 1871
About the Work
Corot painted Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras during a stay at Arras in 1871, late in a career in which landscape had become increasingly quiet, atmospheric and economical. The scene is modest: a farmhouse at the left, willow trees stretching across the middle ground, still water below and a pale, clouded sky above.
Much of the painting’s character comes from Corot’s handling of light. The foliage is broken into soft, flickering touches rather than described leaf by leaf, while the silvery greens of the willows are set against the darker trunk at the right. A small seated figure in a red cap provides one concentrated note of colour within the subdued landscape.
The Cleveland Museum of Art identifies this combination of quiet water and sky, soft trees and foliage touched with light as characteristic of the style that brought Corot broad public success. Nothing in the scene is made monumental. Its effect comes instead from balance, atmosphere and the sense of an ordinary rural place observed with unusual attentiveness.
The Work
Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Title: Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras
Date: 1871
Medium: Oil on fabric
Recorded dimensions: 44.4 × 36.3 cm
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1916.1047
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 50 × 40 cm framed edition.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
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Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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