Italian Peasant Boy

1825/1827

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Artist, French, 1796 - 1875

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 92

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 25.4 x 32.5 cm (10 x 12 13/16 in.)
    framed: 44.5 x 51.1 cm (17 1/2 x 20 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alexandre Blanc, Paris;[1] (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 December 1906, no. 39, 2,000 francs). (Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich), by 1913 until at least 1916.[2] Private collection, Germany, in 1927. (Etienne Bignou, Paris); sold to (Chester Johnson Gallery, Chicago).[3] (John Levy Galleries, New York); sold 4 February 1929 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] It is possible that the NGA painting is that described in Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905: II:22, no. 57. If so, the provenance before Alexandre Blanc is as follows: the artist; (his estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 26 May 1875, no. 12); purchased by (Brame, Paris). Jules Paton, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 April 1883, no. 34). Charles Leroux, Paris; (his sale, Paris, 27 February 1888, no 23); purchased by Dillais; (his sale, Paris, 30 May 1892, no. 12). This is the provenance which is listed in the Bignou photograph albums, Documentation, Musée d'Orsay (copy, NGA curatorial files).
[2] Listed and illustrated in Georg Biermann, "Gemalde aus dem Besitz der Modernen Galerie Thannhauser, München," Der Cicerone, (May 1913): 339ff. Included in the 1916 Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser München, p. xxix, repro. 14.
[3] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 5, repro.

1936

  • Corot, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1936, no. 4.

  • Exposition Corot, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1936, no. 3.

1942

  • Serene World of Corot: An Exhibition in Aid of the Salvation Army War Fund, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1942, no. 1, repro., as Jeune paysan de la campagne romaine.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1913

  • Meier-Graefe, Julius. Corot. Munich, 1913: 16, repro.

  • Bierman, Georg. "Gemälde aus dem Besitz der Modernen Galerie Thannhäuser, München." Der Cicerone (1 May 1913): 323, fig. 17.

1916

  • Hausenstein, Wilhelm. Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhäuser, München. Munich, 1916: XXIX, repro. plate 14.

1924

  • Camille Corot, Briefe aus Italien. Leipzig, 1924: repro. opposite p. 80.

1930

  • Meier-Graefe, Julius. Corot. Berlin, 1930: pl. 1.

  • Bernheim de Villers, C. Corot peintre de figures. Paris, 1930: 65, no. 342, repro.

1931

  • Teriade, C. "Jeunesse!" Cahiers d'Art 1 (1931): 18, repro.

1936

  • Faure, Elie. Corot. Paris, 1936: pl. 13.

1958

  • Fosca, François. Corot: sa vie et son oeuvre. Brussels, 1958: 14, no. 2, repro.

1965

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 35, repro.

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 30.

1966

  • Leymarie, Jean. Corot. Geneva, 1966: 34, repro.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 24, repro.

1972

  • Hours, Madeleine. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. New York, 1972: 37, fig. 35.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 76, repro.

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 432, no. 620, color repro.

1979

  • Leymarie, Jean. Corot. Rev. ed. New York, 1974: 34, repro.

1984

  • Hours, Madeleine. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. New York, 1984: 33, fig. 31.

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 428, no. 608, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 96, repro.

1988

  • Selz, Jean. La vie et l'oeuvre de Camille Corot. Courbevoie (Paris), 1988: 64, repro.

1996

  • Pantazi, Michael, Vincent Pomarède, and Gary Tinterow. Corot, 1796-1875. Exh. cat. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York, 1996: no. 18, color 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: 23-29, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: COROT

Wikidata ID

Q20185112

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