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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist) French, 1796 - 1875 Italian Peasant Boy, 1825/1827 oil on paper on canvas Overall: 25.4 x 32.5 cm (10 x 12 13/16 in.) framed: 44.5 x 51.1 cm (17 1/2 x 20 1/8 in.) Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.8 |
Provenance
Alexandre Blanc, Paris;[1] (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 December 1906, no. 39, 2,000 francs). (Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich), by 1913 until at least 1916.[2] Private collection, Germany, in 1927. (Etienne Bignou, Paris); sold to (Chester Johnson Gallery, Chicago).[3] (John Levy Galleries, New York); sold 4 February 1929 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] It is possible that the NGA painting is that described in Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905: II:22, no. 57. If so, the provenance before Alexandre Blanc is as follows: the artist; (his estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 26 May 1875, no. 12); purchased by (Brame, Paris). Jules Paton, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 April 1883, no. 34). Charles Leroux, Paris; (his sale, Paris, 27 February 1888, no 23); purchased by Dillais; (his sale, Paris, 30 May 1892, no. 12). This is the provenance which is listed in the Bignou photograph albums, Documentation, Musée d'Orsay (copy, NGA curatorial files).
[2] Listed and illustrated in Georg Biermann, "Gemalde aus dem Besitz der Modernen Galerie Thannhauser, München," Der Cicerone, (May 1913): 339ff. Included in the 1916 Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser München, p. xxix, repro. 14.
[3] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records.