. Art in France. FIG. 740.—COROT. THE PONDS AT VILLE-DAVRAV. (Museum of Rouen.) 355 ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 747.—(OROT. DIANAS BATH. (Museum of ) verdure of Nature, andthough his light is Hmpid,it caresses objects andnever defines themsharply. It is nearly al-ways the light of twilightor dawn, wnen obliquerays cast large vagueshadows, shadows whichare never opaque, just asthe hght is never bril-liant. In his latest works,the shadows becomeeven lighter and moresubtle; the vaporous haze is shot with silver sparks and satinygleams, a wet leaf or the smooth white bark of some tree shinesthro
. Art in France. FIG. 740.—COROT. THE PONDS AT VILLE-DAVRAV. (Museum of Rouen.) 355 ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 747.—(OROT. DIANAS BATH. (Museum of ) verdure of Nature, andthough his light is Hmpid,it caresses objects andnever defines themsharply. It is nearly al-ways the light of twilightor dawn, wnen obliquerays cast large vagueshadows, shadows whichare never opaque, just asthe hght is never bril-liant. In his latest works,the shadows becomeeven lighter and moresubtle; the vaporous haze is shot with silver sparks and satinygleams, a wet leaf or the smooth white bark of some tree shinesthrough it. Thus the same scale of values—independent of materialcolours—serves to represent the dry landscape of bmbria, and therainy district of Picardy. Italian vegetation, the burnt grass, paleolive trees and dusty cypresses, in the same mianner as the silverbirches, the willows with trembhng leaves, the grass sprinkled withdewdrops. And thus Corot was able, in all sincerity, to confoundin his memory the Lake of Albano and the pond of Ville dAvray,the Tuscan chalk and the fogsof the He d
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