# The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods

- By: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
- Date: c. 1860–75
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 46 x 61 cm (18 1/8 x 24 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of William G. Mather
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.330)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.330/1951.330_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This scene of a pond bordered by large, leafy trees echoes Corot's well-known views of Ville-d'Avray, while the vaporous light and atmospheric effects within a restricted palette resemble those of the artist's late style of the 1860s and 1870s. The small forms of the peasant and white goat are also typical of Corot's late imagery. This is one of many views of a large pond at Ville-d'Avray, a small commune on the western suburbs of Paris, where Corot inherited a rural property from his parents.