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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1796-1875
19th century
Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard.
7 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (184 x 292 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:30
Notes:
"Corot used his earlier depiction of Genzano (No. 29 [2009.400.29]) as a basis for this composition, now replete with figures and a path. The work will by included in the forthcoming fifth edition of Robaut's catalogue, edited by Martin Dieterle and André Pacitti."--Studying Nature, p. 111, cited below.
Inscription:
Signed at lower left: C. Corot; inscribed on verso in pen and balck ink, upper left: P. L. 4169.
Provenance:
The artist, Rome (reportedly given in 1843 to Le Go); Alexis-René Le Go (1798-1883), Rome and La Seyne-sur-Mer; by descent; Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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