Summer Morning
Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796 - 1875)
Datec.1855-1860
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions22.9 x 34.3 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineSir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Object number3238
DescriptionRobaut saw this small painting at Félix Gérard's in 1880. One in few paintings on wood, he dated it c. 1855-60 and named it Pond, Hilly meadow, a Cow and a Cowgirl in the Foreground (1905, vol. II, p.280, n°876, repr.). It became Landscape: Woman with a Cow in the 1904 exhibition catalogue. Harrison (1908) saw in this "exquisite sketch, seemingly painted direct from nature", a Summer Morning which title was kept until today: Indeed, in a misty summer morning, a peasant woman is driving a cow through a sodden field. The light foliage of trees and hedges is particularly lovely in the yellow light of dawn which has turned the grass into a soft green.Behind a pool, a woman drives a cow towards the left. An open gateway leads to a background of trees and hedges.
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