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lower left: COROT

Provenance

Given by the artist to Mme Camille Cornelie Isbert [1825-1911], Paris.[1] Paul Tesse, Paris, by 1881.[2] Alfred Robaut [1830-1909], Paris, before 1905.[3] (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1930, no. 28); purchased by (Etienne Bignou, Paris) for Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] bequest 1963 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1881
Exposition, Lille, 1881.
1930
Eighth Loan Exhibition. Corot Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 9.
1931
Renoir and his Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 8.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
2008
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 58.

Bibliography

1905
Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 3:no. 1313, as Fontainebleau, rocher dans l'ombre sous la feuille.
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 22, repro.
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 22, repro.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 30, repro.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 39, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 31.
1969
Durbe, Dario and Maris Damigella. La Scuolo di Barbizon. Milan, 1969: 52, pl. 26.
1972
Hours, Madeleine. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. New York, 1972: 48, fig. 54
1973
Bouret, Jean. The Barbizon School. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973: 81, repro. (French ed.: Neuchâtel, 1972)
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 78, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 432, no. 619, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 98, 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: 51-54, color repro.

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