View near Epernon, 1850/1860

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 33.8 x 55.3 cm (13 5/16 x 21 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.13

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: COROT

Provenance

(Sale, Paris, 3 May 1876, 1,200 francs). (Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 January 1877, no. 11, as Laboureur et cavalier dans la campagne, 520 francs).[1] (Marchand sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 March 1890, no. 13 as La Charrue, 7,000 francs); purchased by Foinard.[2] (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris); sold 1891 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] 1876 and 1877 sales per Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener of Elkins Park Pennsylvania, W. Roberts, ed. (privately printed: 1915). Lugt lists five Paris sales for 3 May 1876 and six sales for 29 January 1977; of these, only one is available in the U.S., Hôtel Drouot, Tableaux Modernes, which includes works by Corot. Number 11 in this sale has almost the same dimensions as the NGA painting.

[2] Annotated sales catalogue in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener of Elkins Park Pennsylvania, W. Roberts, ed. (privately printed: 1915).

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Drouot, Hôtel
Foinard
Galerie Georges Petit
Sale, Paris
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

1905: Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 2:294, no. 946, repro., as Fermier à cheval surveillant le labourage.

1915: Roberts, William. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated, repro., as Epernon Fermier à Cheval Surveillant le Labourage.

1923: Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as Épernon Fermier á Cheval Surveillant le Labourage.

1931: Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 206, repro., as Epernon Fermier à Cheval Surveillant le Labourage.

1948: Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 104, repro.

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

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

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 74, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 432, no. 620, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 94, 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: 48-51, color repro.