Quote of Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo, from The Hague, 15/16 July 1882 - original manuscript of letter no. 246 - at Van Gogh Museum, location Amsterdam - inv. b237 a-b V/1962, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let246/letter.html
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The Dupré's [paintings] are superb and there's a Daubigny.. ..that I couldn't get enough of. The same goes for a small Corot [probably the painting 'Pond at Ville-d'Avray', late 1860's https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Pond_at_Ville-d%27Avray%27_by_Camille_Corot,_late_1860s.JPG, a stretch of water and the edge of a wood on a summer morning about 4 o'clock. A single small pink cloud indicates that the sun will come up in a while. A stillness and calm and peace that enchants one.

— Quote of Vincent van Gogh

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The Dupré's [paintings] are superb and there's a Daubigny.. ..that I couldn't get enough of. The same goes for a small Corot [probably the painting 'Pond at Ville-d'Avray', late 1860's https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Pond_at_Ville-d%27Avray%27_by_Camille_Corot,_late_1860s.JPG, a stretch of water and the edge of a wood on a summer morning about 4 o'clock. A single small pink cloud indicates that the sun will come up in a while. A stillness and calm and peace that enchants one." in the context of "Quote of Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo, from The Hague, 15/16 July 1882 - original manuscript of letter no. 246 - at Van Gogh Museum, location Amsterdam - inv. b237 a-b V/1962, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let246/letter.html" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

About Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching and famous art teacher in Paris. Corot was a leading figure in the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism