Probablement collection Julien Bessonneau (1842-1916), Angers

Galerie Boussod et Valadon, Paris, 1904 

Galerie William Brebner Simpson (1867-1949), Glasgow (n° 422), selon une étiquette au dos

Collection S. Hewy, selon Eric Turquin

Galerie Eric Turquin, Paris

Acquis auprès auprès de cette dernière par l'actuel propriétaire le 15 juin 2011

Collection Louis Grandchamp des Raux

A.Robaut, E. Moreau-Nélaton, L'œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré précédé de l'histoire de Corot et de ses œuvres... tome III, Paris, 1904, n° 1882, p. 212, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 213 (Titré Lisière boisée d’un étang)

In its treatment of the silver light, the present painting differs from the previous one. It belongs to the corpus of “souvenirs” painted by Corot in the years 1860 to 1870, like Souvenir à Mortefontaine, which is one of the stars among the 19^th century paintings in the Musée de Louvre. This group by Corot evokes specific places, rendered from memory or by means of a sketch done from life. They are characterised by a silvery light, lending the image a hazy quality, as if filtered by the passage of time. The foliage has been rendered using a multitude of horizontal strokes in shades of milky grey and green, thus creating a shimmering surface, typical of his mature work. In contrast to the realistic landscape paintings by Courbet and Daubigny, Corot’s “souvenirs” are his odes to the poetic sentiment inspired by the banks of the Seine.