DOI Heft:
No. 117 (November, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Halton, Ernest G.: The collection of Mr. Alexander Young, 1, The Corots
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0029
The Alexander Young Collection—/. The Corots
“the edge of the wood”
BY J. B. C. COROT
coloured reproduction which is given
here. Fine in colour too is the
Souvenir de Picardie (p. 16), with
its varied and beautiful tones in the
foreground and remarkably fine sky.
It will be noticed that the figures are
drawn with rather more care than
the artist was wont to employ.
The collection contains no finer
example of Corot’s wonderful and
original treatment of trees than The
Edge of the Wood (opposite). It has
been said that to him a tree was “ a
soft tremulous being, rocking in the
air ”; but here he gives us some-
thing more than this. Besides the
characteristic quivering leaves there
is great depth of colour, while the
dark shadows are put in with firm
and unerring touch. It is probably
that from such studies as this
Harpignies has received his inspira-
tions. More remarkable tree painting
is to be observed in the Chateau-
Thierry (below), where the drawing
of the great bare trunk, placed so
In Mantes (p. n) we have an ex-
ample of the master’s fine gift of colour,
the sky and sea and the wonderful blue
of the distant view blending together
in one harmonious whole. Far away,
across the water spanned by a bridge,
lies the town of Mantes. Usually re-
strained in his hues, this is one of the
strongest bits of colour Corot has left
us, and it is certainly among the finest
of the smaller pictures by him in the
collection.
Another unusually bright little picture
is The Boatman. Here Corot has
adopted a lighter scheme of colour to
which the subject easily lends itself.
The salmon-tinted sky reflected in' the
broad expanse of river, the fresh green
hues of the foliage, the rich browns of
the foreground and the sturdy willow
trunk in the centre, form together a
delightful symphony of colour, while
the note of red struck by the cap
of the fisherman is happily introduced.
The rhythm and jewel-like quality of
this small work is well suggested in the
“the chateau-thierry ”
BY J. B C. COROT
15
“the edge of the wood”
BY J. B. C. COROT
coloured reproduction which is given
here. Fine in colour too is the
Souvenir de Picardie (p. 16), with
its varied and beautiful tones in the
foreground and remarkably fine sky.
It will be noticed that the figures are
drawn with rather more care than
the artist was wont to employ.
The collection contains no finer
example of Corot’s wonderful and
original treatment of trees than The
Edge of the Wood (opposite). It has
been said that to him a tree was “ a
soft tremulous being, rocking in the
air ”; but here he gives us some-
thing more than this. Besides the
characteristic quivering leaves there
is great depth of colour, while the
dark shadows are put in with firm
and unerring touch. It is probably
that from such studies as this
Harpignies has received his inspira-
tions. More remarkable tree painting
is to be observed in the Chateau-
Thierry (below), where the drawing
of the great bare trunk, placed so
In Mantes (p. n) we have an ex-
ample of the master’s fine gift of colour,
the sky and sea and the wonderful blue
of the distant view blending together
in one harmonious whole. Far away,
across the water spanned by a bridge,
lies the town of Mantes. Usually re-
strained in his hues, this is one of the
strongest bits of colour Corot has left
us, and it is certainly among the finest
of the smaller pictures by him in the
collection.
Another unusually bright little picture
is The Boatman. Here Corot has
adopted a lighter scheme of colour to
which the subject easily lends itself.
The salmon-tinted sky reflected in' the
broad expanse of river, the fresh green
hues of the foliage, the rich browns of
the foreground and the sturdy willow
trunk in the centre, form together a
delightful symphony of colour, while
the note of red struck by the cap
of the fisherman is happily introduced.
The rhythm and jewel-like quality of
this small work is well suggested in the
“the chateau-thierry ”
BY J. B C. COROT
15