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Description:
landscape; outdoor; vegetation

Label Text:
This is a late landscape by Corot, in his more “feathery” style of painting. A number of these later landscapes are poetic “souvenirs” based on imagination and memory and sometimes populated with nymphs and arcadian figures. This painting, however, is based on an actual site. The grove of trees depicted here belonged to the family of Louis-Désiré Dubuisson, a friend of Corot’s and collector of his work. In the foreground, a woman with a baby watches two girls picking flowers. A path framed by rows of trees leads to some ramshackle sheds; at far right, a diminutive cow, out of scale with the rest of the picture, peers into the distance.

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