The Evening Star

1864

90 cm 71 cm

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In the 1850s, Corot began to paint works that he sometimes referred to as "souvenirs," in which he tried not only to record his visual experience of a site but also to convey the sensations it evoked. Corot was inspired to paint this poetic composition after listening to a you...

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Commissioned by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, 1864 (received by 1865) [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 171.
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