Souvenir de Mortefontaine
1864 · Oil on canvas · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875)
- Year
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65 × 89 cm
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Movement
- Realism
A woman and two children reach into the branches of a slender tree at the edge of a glassy lake, under the great leaning mass of a second tree, with the far shore dissolving in silvery mist. Corot had often visited Mortefontaine, a village in the Oise north of Paris, in the 1850s to study light on water, but this is a recollection rather than a view, as its title says: a landscape remembered and reshaped in the studio. He painted it in 1864 and showed it at the Salon that year, where it was bought for the French state through the civil list of Napoleon III; it hung at Fontainebleau before entering the Louvre in 1889. The feathery, blurred foliage and muted palette, close to the early landscape photographs Corot collected, made it the model for the poetic late manner that dominated his final decade.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A glassy lake, feathery blurred foliage and silvery mist, a remembered landscape for a bedroom, study or reading corner at 24×18 or 32×24 in black or natural oak. A soft grey, sage or white wall; it is one of the quietest pictures in the catalogue.
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1864)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; oak lightens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge-to-edge at its own proportions, filling the whole sheet — and available on gallery-wrapped canvas.
