Corn Fields
With the change of the century, Vallotton shifted his focus from printmaking to oil painting. Before 1900, the artist concentrated on precisely reproducing the world around him, but as seen in this painting, Vallotton’s work shows hints of ambiguity. The greenery blends together, and the distant horizon is described in simple curves of hills or clouds that fade into the sky.
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Details
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- unframed: height 0.262 m, width 0.462 m; framed: height 0.4 m, width 0.594 m, depth 0.038 m
- Origin
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Visual · 99%
The image depicts an expansive rural view with cultivated fields, trees, rolling land, and sky.
Styles and Movements
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Nabis Metadata · 99%
Nabis is listed among the work’s museum subject metadata.
Visual Qualities
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 97%
Highly saturated greens contrast with pale yellow fields and a blue sky crossed by ocher and peach strokes.
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Flatness Visual · 91%
The scene is rendered in broad, simplified horizontal zones with limited naturalistic detail and compressed spatial depth.
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 94%
Winding field boundaries and the distant horizon are defined by broad sweeping curves.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art identifies the medium as oil on board.
Time Periods
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1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1900, placing it within the catalog’s 1900–1917 period category.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 86%
The museum record gives the place of origin as France, 19th century.
Source & rights
Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925). Corn Fields. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 13,057 × 7,411 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available