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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist)
French, 1796 - 1875
Saint Sebastian Succored by the Holy Women, 1874
oil on canvas
Overall: 130.1 x 86 cm (51 1/4 x 33 7/8 in.) framed: 160 x 116.2 x 9.8 cm (63 x 45 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Timken Collection
1960.6.4

Exhibition History

1878
Exposition universelle, Paris, 1878, no. 202.
1895
Exposition de centenaire de Corot, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1895, no. 62.
1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.
1974
Loan for display with permanent collection, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, 1974-1980.
1983
French Salon Paintings from Southern Collections, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1983, no. 20, repro.
1987
Loan for display with permanent collection (in conjunction with the exhibition From Arcadia to Barbizon: A Journey in French Landscape), Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1987-1988.
1994
Paris in 1874: The Year of Impressionism, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1994, no. 58, repro.
1996
Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: Les amis de la nature, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1996, no. B25, repro.
1999
Theo Van Gogh (1857 - 1891): Art dealer, collector and brother of Vincent, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1999-2000, no. 84, repro., as St. Sebastian (shown only in Amsterdam).

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