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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist) French, 1796 - 1875 Beach near Etretat, c. 1872 oil on canvas Overall: 12.3 x 25.5 cm (4 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.) framed: 25.4 x 38.1 x 3.2 cm (10 x 15 x 1 1/4 in.) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection 1970.17.117 |
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Provenance
F. Stumpf, Paris; (Stumpf sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris 27 November 1894, no. 19, as Marine); purchased by (F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris).[1] Aimé Diot [d. 1896], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1897, no. 35, as Falaises). Nicolas Auguste Hazard [1834-1913], Paris; (Hazard sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 December 1919, no. 91, as La Plage); purchased by Rosenthal, Paris; (Rosenthal sale, Paris, 9 May 1934, no. 67); purchased by Dr. Georges Viau [1855-1939], Paris; (his estate sale, part I, 11 December 1942, no. 81).[2] Baron Pellenc, Paris, in 1944. André Schoëller [1879-1955], Paris, in 1945.[3] Captain Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[4] sold 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] Letter from Jean Dieterle, peintre-expert, dated 11 September 1970, in NGA curatorial files, gives Tempelaere as purchaser.
[2] According to press reports and an annotated sales catalogue, copy in NGA curatorial records, the picture sold for 560,000 francs to an unnamed purchaser.
[3] Pellenc and Schoeller per Dieterle letter cited in note 1. Schoeller acted as expert at the 1942 Viau sale.
[4] Exhibited in French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1952.
Associated Names
- Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
- Diot, André
- Drouot, Hôtel
- Galerie Georges Petit
- Hazard, Nicolas Auguste
- Molyneux, Edward H., Captain
- Pellenc, Baron
- Rosenthal
- Sale, Paris
- Schoeller, André
- Stumpf, F.
- Tempelaere, Gustave
- Viau, Georges, Dr.
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