Lot 3
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
  • La méditation
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 1/4 by 13 1/4 in.
  • 46 by 34 cm

Provenance

Col. Mimard Roussel, 1871

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

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England, Paintings, Drawings and Prints from Private Collections in New England, 1939, no. 26, illustrated p. 25

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

Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivant, français et étrangers: Études d'après nature, Paris, 1853, pp. 86, 98-99

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