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image of A View near Volterra
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist)
French, 1796 - 1875
A View near Volterra, 1838
oil on canvas
Overall: 69.9 x 95.5 cm (27 1/2 x 37 5/8 in.) framed: 94 x 120.3 cm (37 x 47 3/8 in.)
Chester Dale Collection
1963.10.111
1933Fine Arts 20 (June 1933): 31, repro.
1933Formes 33 (1933): 382, repro.
1933
1933Bulliet, C.J. Art Masterpieces of a Century of Progress, Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. 2 vols. Chicago, 1933: 2:no. 124, repro.
1936Bazin, Germain. "Corot et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17 (February 1936): 43, fig. 12.
1937George, Waldemar. "L'Art français et l'espirit de suite." La Renaissance 20 (1937): 23-24, repro.
1941Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 2, pl. III.
1941Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Now the Great French 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art." Art News 40 (1941): repro. 18.
1942French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 20, repro.
1942Bazin, Germain. Corot. Paris, 1942: 116, no. 47, repro.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 154, color repro.
1944French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 20, repro.
1953French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 29, repro.
1955Cooke, Hereward Lester. Galeria National de Washington. Madrid, 1955: 319, repro. (German ed. 1971).
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 151.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 248, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 31.
1965Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 37, repro.
1965Roberts, Keith. Corot. London, 1965: 42, color pl. 16.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:410, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 23, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 78, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 434, no. 627, color repro. 435.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 106, pl. 94, color repro.
1979Leymarie, Jean. Corot. New York, 1979: repro. 69.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 430, no. 615, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 98, repro.
1988Wissman, Fronia. J.-B.-C. Corot: View of Volterra. Timken Art Gallery, San Diego, 1988: fig. 16, note 15.
1989Wissman, Fronia. Corot's Salon Paintings: Sources from French Classicism to Contemporary Theater Design. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1989: 20-21.
1991Clarke, Michael. Corot and the Art of Landscape. London, 1991: 46, 49, fig. 49.
1997Clark, Kenneth. Landscape into Art. London, 1997: 157, no. 92, repro.
2000Eitner, 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: 39-44, color repro.

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