![Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - The Seine Landscape Near Chatou [1855] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6948562579_35f7deee48.jpg)
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - The Seine Landscape Near Chatou [1855], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
In contrast to the powerful realism of light that characterised the first half of his oeuvre, after 1850 much of Corot’s work was devoted to dream-like depictions of atmospheric evenings with water reflecting mild light and subtle transitions from silver-grey to green. Even when particular places are portrayed, Chatou is not far from the painter’s parental home in Ville-d’Avray, Corot still interpreted these, as he himself said, “as much with my heart as with my eyes.”
[Oil on canvas, 37 x 64 cm]
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