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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist) French, 1796 - 1875 Agostina, 1866 oil on canvas Overall: 132.4 x 97.6 cm (52 1/8 x 38 7/16 in.) framed: 173.7 x 138.4 cm (68 3/8 x 54 1/2 in.) Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.108 |
Provenance
Breysse, Paris, by 1875.[1] Jean-Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, 29 April 1878, no. 15). Jules Paton, Paris, by 1884.[2] (Boussod Valadon et Cie., Paris). With (Goupil, London), by 1907.[3] In the private collection of Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1909; purchased June 1931 by Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] Lent by Breysse to Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 52, as Etude de femme.
[2] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files. The painting does not appear in the only recorded sale of the Paton collection, held 24 April 1883.
[3] The painting was included in the 1907 Exposition d'art français at Goupil Gallery. See Gabriel Mourey, "Une Exposition d'art français à Londres," Les Arts 66 (June 1907): 30.
[4] Lent by Bernheim-Jeune to Rétrospective de figures de Corot, Salon d'Autumne, Paris, 1909, no. 11, as l'Italienne Agostina, according to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files. A photograph of this painting is included among the albums from the gallery of Etienne Bignou now at the Documentation, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (copies in NGA curatorial files), which suggests that Bignou was in possession of the picture at one time, perhaps in conjunction with Bernheim-Jeune.