Summer Morning

Spotted: Pinned on own Pinterest, after Google Image Search, 16 July 2018

Jean-Baptise-Camille Corot, born on 16 July 1796 in Paris, on the month when summer is ablaze in the Northern Hemisphere. His work, "Summer Morning" has the quality associated with the Barbizon School, so named after the usual gathering place of artists in France.

This work is in the collection of the National Gallery in London, but not currently on display; from the Gallery's website, described:

The exact location of this scene has not been identified. The theme of figures and animals next to a watering place is widespread in his work, and illustrates how the evocation of mood eventually became more important to the artist than the specific nature of a particular location.

[This post is antedated: 20180725]