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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Description
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- La méditation
- Oil on canvas
- 18 1/4 by 13 1/4 in.
- 46 by 34 cm
Provenance
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26, 1879, lot 12
Jules Paton, 1879 (and sold, his estate, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 24, 1883, lot 50)
Arnold & Tripp, Paris
Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 1904
Boussod et Valadon, Paris, no. 30251
Pierre Baudin, Paris (and sold, his estate, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Pierre Baudin Estate, March 16, 1921, lot 1)
Pierre Blook, Paris, 1921
Hugo Simon, Berlin (and sold, S… and S… Collection, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9, 1932, lot 14
Possibly, Max Kaganovitch, Paris (acquired by private treaty after it went unsold at the above sale)
Robert Treat Paine II, Brookline, Massachusetts (acquired by 1934)
Schreider Gabriel Gallery, New York
Irving Vogel, Philadelphia
Possibly Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago (acquired circa 1960)
William Cargill of Carruth Bridge, Weir, Scotland (and sold, his estate, Sotheby’s, London, June 11, 1963, lot 12, illustrated)
Marlborough Galleries, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale)
Lichtenstein Corporation
Mrs. Cecil Blaffer von Furstenberg, 1964
The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas (donated from the above in 1969)
Acquired by the present owner in 2005
Exhibited
Chicago, The Art Institute, Corot, 1796-1875, 1960, no. 48, p. 21
London, Marlborough Galleries Ltd., Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund, 1963, no. 17
Houston, The Sarah Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houson, exh. cat., 1973, p. 12-13
Literature
Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, vol. II, Paris, 1905, no. 387, pp. 142-143, illustrated p. 143
François Fosca, Corot, Paris, 1930, no. 22, n.p., illustrated
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Corot Peintre de Figures, Paris, 1930, no. 259, n.p., illustrated
Elie Faure, Corot, Paris, 1951, no. 27
Gary Tinterow, Michael Pantazzi, Vincent Pomaréde, Corot, exh. cat., Paris, 1996, pp. 152, 178