Dance under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake
1865/1870
Painter, French, 1796 - 1875

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 55.88 × 80.01 cm (22 × 31 1/2 in.)
framed: 87.63 × 112.4 × 11.43 cm (34 1/2 × 44 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.25
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Roussel, Paris, by 1905.[1] (Roussel collection sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25-28 March 1912, no. 28); (Arnold & Tripp, Paris).[2] (John Levy Galleries, New York); purchased 1919 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[3] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Alfred Robaut lists the painting as in the Roussel collection in L'Oeuvre de Corot, 5 vols., Paris, 1905: 3:168, no. 1698, repro.
[2] "Sen. Clark's New Corot," American Art News 8, no. 9 (20 December 1919): 1.
[3] "Another Corot for Clark," American Art News 8, no. 10 (27 December 1919): 1.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1905
Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 3:168, no. 1698, repro.
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 147, no. 104.
Inscriptions
lower left: Corot
Wikidata ID
Q46629379