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image of Forest of Fontainebleau
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist)
French, 1796 - 1875
Forest of Fontainebleau, 1834
oil on canvas
Overall: 175.6 x 242.6 cm (69 1/8 x 95 1/2 in.) framed: 196.9 x 262.9 cm (77 1/2 x 103 1/2 in.)
Chester Dale Collection
1963.10.109

Exhibition History

1834
Salon of 1834, Paris, no. 371, as Une fôret
1875
Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 138, as Jeune femme lisant pres d'un cours d'eau entouré de rochers
1876
Exposition des deux tableaux importants par Corot et Gustave Courbet, M.A. Binant, Paris, 1876, no. 1, repro.
1889
Exposition centennale de l'art français, Exposition universelle, Paris, 1889, no. 173
1895
Exposition de centenaire de Corot, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1895, no. 18
1908
Grafton Galleries, London, 1908
1913
Le Musée de Bâle, Basel, 1913, no. 60
1917
Französische Kunst des XIX. u. XIX. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1917, possibly no. 58
1979
French Romanticism, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, unnumbered checklist.

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