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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Portrait of a Young Girl, 1850 or 1859

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 92

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 25.2 x 21 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

framed: 43.5 x 39.4 cm (17 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.9

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower left: COROT / [1850 or 1859]

Provenance

(Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1922, no. 57); purchased by Frederick Manaud, Paris;[1] (Dr. Alfred Gold [1874-1958], Berlin);[2] sold 1926 to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd., London); sold 1927 through (Hodebert, Paris) to Dr. Albert C. Barnes [1873-1951], Merion, Pennsylvania; sold to (Etienne Bignou, Paris); sold 8 May 1930 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] An annotated copy of the 25 March 1922 sale catalogue in the M. Knoedler library gives the buyer as Manaud. Reid & Lefèvre Pictures Sold, sheet no. 298, #258/29 B 1642, as "Figure," lists the acquisition date as 28 November 1928 and Frederick Manaut as from whom the painting was acquired (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283).

[2] Letter from Reid and Lefèvre, dated 20 July 1964, in NGA curatorial files, gives the 1926 acquisition date, and the 1927 sale to Barnes. The 1928 date cited in note one above is probably when the picture was re-acquired by Reid & Lefèvre's partner Bignou.

Associated Names

Barnes, Albert Coombs
Bignou, Etienne
Dale, Chester
Drouot, Hôtel
Gold, Alfred, Dr.
Hodebert
Manaud, Frederick
Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd, Alex

Exhibition History

1930: Corot-Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 24, repro.

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1930: Flint, R. "Article on Corot-Daumier Exhibition." Art News 29 (18 October 1930): 10, repro.

1931: Frankfurter, Alfred. "Thirty-five Portraits from American Collections." Art News 29, no. 33 (16 May 1931): 4, repro.

1931: Kunst und Kunstler (January 1931): 154.

1931: McBride, Henry. "The Chester Dale Collection at New York." Formes 14 (April 1931): 57, repro.

1935: Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 277, repro. (English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York, 1939: 277, repro.).

1941: Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York, 1941: 87.

1942: Bazin, Germain. Corot. Paris, 1942: 59, 120, no. 83, pl. 83.

1948: Schoeller, André and Jean Dieterle. Corot. Premier supplément à "L'Oeuvre de Corot" par A. Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton. Paris, 1948: 56, no. 50, repro.

1951: Bazin, Germain. Corot. 2nd ed. Paris, 1951: 129, no. 95, pl. 95.

1951: Morse, John D. "Corot as a Figure Painter." American Artist XV (November 1951): 27, repro.

1956: Fosca, François. La peinture française au XIXe siècle. Paris, 1956: 72-73, repro. (English ed., French Painting: Nineteenth Century Painters 1800-1870. Paris, 1960: 72-73, repro.)

1957: Baud-Bovy, Daniel. Corot. Paris, 1957: 124, pl. XXXVII.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 31.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 22, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 78, repro.

1975: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 432-433, no. 623, color repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 428, no. 611, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 97, 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: 44-47, color repro.