Picking Fruit at Ariccia, 1860/1875

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 67.95 × 48.26 cm (26 3/4 × 19 in.)

framed: 92.71 × 73.66 × 9.53 cm (36 1/2 × 29 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.143.7

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (painter) French, 1796 - 1875

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Inscription

lower right: Corot

Provenance

(Boussod et Valadon). Jaquette.[1] (Goupil et Cie, Paris), 1 March 1893, as Vue d'Italie; lac; purchased 31 May 1893 by G.N. Stevens, London;[2] (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14 June 1912, no. 15, as Souvenir d'Italie); (M. Knoedler and Co., New York), as Souvenir of Italy; purchased September 1912 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[3] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Early provenance according to Alfred Robaut, l'Oeuvre de Corot, 5 vols., Paris, 1905: 362, no. 2320.

[2] The painting is stock number 22827 in the Goupil & Cie Records, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stockbook 13, 1981-1895, page 130.

[3] The painting is stock number 12889 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 6, 12653-15139, 1911 December-1920 July, page 32.

Associated Names

Boussod et Valadon
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Jaquette
Knoedler & Company, M.
Stevens, G.N.

Exhibition History

1986: Corot - Delacroix, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, May-June 1986, no. 20, pl. 27.

2007: Masterpieces: European Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 February - 12 August 2007.

Bibliography

1905: Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 362-363, no. 2320, 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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 150, no. 112.