The painting belongs to the time of the highest flowering creativity Koro. The everyday motive – a cart in a field on a wet road after a rain – is felt by the artist as a poetic image. Everything is shimmering and sparkling in this humble corner of nature: wetland and air, rapidly moving clouds, trees fluttering in the wind.
A dynamic, light stroke with the greatest accuracy conveys this volatile life of nature. Painting Corot – is primarily the art of valer – nuances and shades within the same color. The artist avoids bright and sharp tones, preferring silvery-gray or golden brown tones, reaching a special refinement of the color scale. In the State Museum of Fine Arts. AS Pushkin entered in 1924 from the Rumyantsev Museum.