- Title:
- The Leaning Tree Trunk
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- This idyllic view of elegant trees and a peaceful lake is one of a number of related scenes painted by Corot at this period. The lake is one of those at Ville-d'Avray near Paris, the location of Corot's family home, and the trees are based on a drawing he had made at Civita Castellana during his first visit to Italy in 1825--8.In this particular example, which was painted late in the series, Corot has reduced the single birch trunk at the right and the trunk reaching out across the picture to stylised, decorative elements. Both the man in his punt and the woman reaching up to gather twigs make frequent appearances in the artist's work. The streaks of orange in the boat and in the woman's cap create bright accents in the pervading silvery green tonality of the scene.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1910-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1910
- Date - latest:
- 1910
- Acquisition source:
- George Salting
- Credit line:
- Salting Bequest, 1910
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/979/58/621/mid_N-2625-00-000020.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 49.70
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 60.70
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- about 1860-5
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1860
- Date - latest:
- 1865
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Object production person:
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Person's birth date:
- 1796
- Person's death date:
- 1875
- Object production place:
- France
- Other number:
- NG2625
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FJ4-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG2625
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04HH-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng32625
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- river scenes
- Style:
- landscapes
- Style:
- Barbizon
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 142-9
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 52
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 31
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 140
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference details:
- 27-8
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot
- Reference details:
- 48-50
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Barbizon: Malerei der Natur - Natur der Malerei
- Reference details:
- 332, 335
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- L'oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonné et illustré
- Reference details:
- 2.362
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Camille Corot
- Reference details:
- 27
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A List of Pictures and Sculpture in 10 Downing Street
- Reference details:
- 27
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The French School in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 339f
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Collection of Mr Alexander Young, I: The Corots
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery and the Collecting of Barbizon Paintings in the Early Twentieth Century
- Reference details:
- 84
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Analyses of Paint Media
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Pictures Cleaned and Restored in the Conservation Department of the National Gallery, January 1979 - February 1980
- Reference details:
- 68
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot: Naturaleza, emoción, recuerdo
- Reference details:
- 378, 380
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery : review of the year, April 2010 – March 2011.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (detail) (p. 49)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot to Monet : French landscape painting /contributors: Sarah Herring, Antonio Mazzota.
- Reference details:
- Cat. no. 27 (p. 63); ill. (p. 63); ill. fig. 27 (p. 36)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The landscapes of Corot, 1796-1875 / text by D. Croal Thomson.
- Reference details:
- Ill. plate XV
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Camille Corot : Natur und Traum.
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 7 (p. 85); ill. fig. 9 (p. 413)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- In artist's footsteps : the reconstruction of pigments and paintings : studies in honour of Renate Woudhuysen-Keller /edited by Lucy Wrapson, Jenny Rose, Rose Miller and Spike Bucklow.
- Reference details:
- Ills. (p. 117-128)
- Reference type:
- reference
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