The Harbor of La Rochelle (Le Port de la Rochelle), 1851
Oil on canvas, 19 7/8 x 28 1/4 in. (50.5 x 71.8 cm)
Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
1961.18.14
This view of the harbor of La Rochelle, on the Bay of Biscay, as seen from the second-story window of a house on the Quai Vallin, is composed with the classic order and serenity that Corot drew from his study of Poussin and Claude. Though painted in the summer of 1851, well into the period of the feathery gray landscapes that brought him his greatest popularity, this canvas harks back to Corot's earlier style in its arrangement of architectural masses illuminated and solidly modeled by sunlight.
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