Corot was enormously influential on the younger generation of artists like Edgar Degas, who stated: “I believe that Corot draws a tree better than any one of us.” Here, the tall spindly trees, dappled foliage, and silvery, cool palette are typical of Corot’s late work, which often stems more from the artist’s imagination, imbued as it was with years of landscape study, than an actual view of the outdoors. The figures populating this quiet woodland scene are all stock characters Corot reused in many different compositions.

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