La route aux Bûcherons, Arleux-du-Nord

Image credit: Rhian Israel / Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

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This view of village life belongs to a group of pictures that Corot painted during his stay in northeast France in the spring and summer of 1871, and reflects Corot’s lifelong love of the landscape. In the last years of his life, in the challenging political and social context following the Franco-Prussian War, Corot sought solace in the countryside. As he wrote in 1871, ‘The plight of our country, it seems, has driven me to take cover under the vault of heaven and a roof of leafage, and to hunt out the best places for listening to the concert of the birds.’ Depictions like this of a reassuringly traditional France chimed with modern Republican values and helped to bolster the nation’s self-image.
Title

La route aux Bûcherons, Arleux-du-Nord

Date

1871

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 37.3 x W 54.2 cm (E)

Accession number

NMW A 24958

Acquisition method

accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Tax and allocated to Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, 2020

Work type

Painting

Signature/marks description

Signed, recto bottom left 'COROT'

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