Landscape with Pollard Willows
1840 - 1875
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot captures a quiet, breezy afternoon with a row of gnarled pollard willows dominating the left side. Notice the loose, sketchy brushstrokes that make the leaves look like they are rustling in the wind—a technique that heavily influenced the Impressionists who came after him. A lone figure with a yellow headscarf strolls down a dirt path with a white goat, while a cow grazes peacefully nearby, all bathed in Corot's signature silvery light. It feels less like a formal studio composition and more like a fleeting, personal memory of the French countryside.
- Technique
- Oil painting