Portrait of a Young Girl
1850 or 1859
Artist, French, 1796 - 1875
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 92
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 25.2 x 21 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
framed: 43.5 x 39.4 cm (17 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1963.10.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1922, no. 57); purchased by Frederick Manaud, Paris;[1] (Dr. Alfred Gold [1874-1958], Berlin);[2] sold 1926 to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd., London); sold 1927 through (Hodebert, Paris) to Dr. Albert C. Barnes [1873-1951], Merion, Pennsylvania; sold to (Etienne Bignou, Paris); sold 8 May 1930 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] An annotated copy of the 25 March 1922 sale catalogue in the M. Knoedler library gives the buyer as Manaud. Reid & Lefèvre Pictures Sold, sheet no. 298, #258/29 B 1642, as "Figure," lists the acquisition date as 28 November 1928 and Frederick Manaut as from whom the painting was acquired (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283).
[2] Letter from Reid and Lefèvre, dated 20 July 1964, in NGA curatorial files, gives the 1926 acquisition date, and the 1927 sale to Barnes. The 1928 date cited in note one above is probably when the picture was re-acquired by Reid & Lefèvre's partner Bignou.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 24, repro.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1930
Flint, R. "Article on Corot-Daumier Exhibition." Art News 29 (18 October 1930): 10, repro.
1931
Kunst und Kunstler (January 1931): 154.
Frankfurter, Alfred. "Thirty-five Portraits from American Collections." Art News 29, no. 33 (16 May 1931): 4, repro.
McBride, Henry. "The Chester Dale Collection at New York." Formes 14 (April 1931): 57, repro.
1935
Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 277, repro. (English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York, 1939: 277, repro.).
1941
Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York, 1941: 87.
1942
Bazin, Germain. Corot. Paris, 1942: 59, 120, no. 83, pl. 83.
1948
Schoeller, André and Jean Dieterle. Corot. Premier supplément à "L'Oeuvre de Corot" par A. Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton. Paris, 1948: 56, no. 50, repro.
1951
Bazin, Germain. Corot. 2nd ed. Paris, 1951: 129, no. 95, pl. 95.
Morse, John D. "Corot as a Figure Painter." American Artist XV (November 1951): 27, repro.
1956
Fosca, François. La peinture française au XIXe siècle. Paris, 1956: 72-73, repro. (English ed., French Painting: Nineteenth Century Painters 1800-1870. Paris, 1960: 72-73, repro.)
1957
Baud-Bovy, Daniel. Corot. Paris, 1957: 124, pl. XXXVII.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38, repro.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 31.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 22, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 78, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 432-433, no. 623, color repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 428, no. 611, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 97, repro.
2000
Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 44-47, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: COROT / [1850 or 1859]
Wikidata ID
Q20187990