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Inscription

lower right: COROT

Provenance

Given by the artist to Monsieur F. Stumpf; Stumpf family until at least 1906;[1] Mme Barbier de Saint Hilaire, née Madeleine Stumpf, the child in the painting; sold by 1922[2] to (Tedesco Frères, Paris) and (Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, London and Paris);[3] acquired c. 1965 by (E.V. Thaw & Co, New York);[4] sold January 1966 to (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); sold 26 March 1966 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1] Discussed as part of the Stumpf collection, but not offered for sale, in Catalogue de tableaux moderne composant la collection de feu M. F. Stumpf, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 May 1906, pp. 6-10.

[2] Letter dated 29 July 1970 from Jean Dieterle to David Rust, in NGA curatorial files.

[3] According to a letter from Alexandre Rosenberg dated 27 June 1977, in NGA curatorial files, the painting was confiscated with others from the Rosenberg collection in France in 1940, traced to a Swiss collection in 1945, and returned to the Rosenbergs in 1947. The painting is listed as no. 37.954 in the Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945 [List of Property Removed from France during the War, 1939-1945, Groupe française du conseil de controle, 1947. Documents from the National Archives in Washington indicate that the picture was confiscated on 18 September 1940 from the château of Floirac (see letter dated 15 December 1944 from Edmond Rosemberg with first list of Floirac pictures, Rosenberg claim file, National Archives RG260/OMGUS/Records of the Museum, Fine Arts and Archives Section/Cultural Property Claims Applications/ Box 743, copies in NGA curatorial files). The painting was selected by Hermann Goering from the Jeu de Paume (OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #2, The Goering Collection, 15 September 1945, Attachment 5,Nachtrag zur Liste v. 20.10.42 der für die Sammlung des Reichnsmarschalls Hermann Göring abgegebenen Kunstgegestände dated 9 April 1943, no. 3, National Archives RG239/Entry 73/box 78; see also OSS dispatch dated 29 August 1945, National Archives RG 226/Entry 190/Box 532, copies in NGA curatorial files). The French dealer Zacharie Birtschansky [1889 - c.1950]was then involved in selling the picture to Hans Wendland for a Swiss dealer, probably Fischer (see OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #2, The Goering Collection, 15 September 1945, p. 57-8, National Archives RG 226/Entry 99/Box 105, copy NGA curatorial files).

[4] Letter of 20 April 1995 from E.V. Thaw and Co., Inc., in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1909
Exposition rétrospective de portraits de femmes sous les trois republiques, Palais de Bagatelle, Paris, 1909, no. 37, repro.
1925
Cinquantes ans de peintre française 1875-1925, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1925, no. 19, repro.
1928
Exposition d'oeuvres de Camille J.B. Corot (1976-1825): Figures et Paysages d'Italie, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1928, no. 49
1930
Exposition d'oeuvres de Corot (1796-1825), paysages de France et figures, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1930, no. 56
1934
Loan exhibition of figure and landscape paintings by J.B.C. Corot, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1934, no. 27, repro. on cover
1956
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by J.B.C. Corot (1796-1825), Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1956, no. 32, repro.
1960
Corot (1796-1825), The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960, no. 132, repro.
1962
Figures de Corot, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1962, no. 81, repro.
1963
Style, Truth and the Portrait, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963, no. 83, repro.
1964
Man: Glory, Jest and Riddle, A Survey of Human Form through the Ages, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1964-1965, no. 159
1996
Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: Les amis de la nature, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1996, no. B24, repro.
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 5, repro.
2001
Corot: El Parque de los Leones en Port-Marly, 1872 [Corot: The Park of Lions at Port-Marly, 1872], Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2001, no. 6, repro.

Bibliography

1905
Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 3:no. 2125.
1906
Lagrange, H. La collection Stumpf. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1906: 9-10, repro.
1930
Bernheim de Villers, G. Corot peintre de figures. Paris, 1930: 53, no. 294, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 80, repro.
1979
Leymarie, Jean. Corot. New York, 1979: 145-149, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 428, no. 613, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 99, repro.
1988
Selz, Jean. La vie et l'oeuvre de Camille Corot. Courbevoie-Paris, 1988: 252-254.
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: 88-91, color repro.

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