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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist) French, 1796 - 1875 Young Girl Reading, c. 1868 oil on paperboard on wood Overall: 32.5 x 41.3 cm (12 13/16 x 16 1/4 in.) framed: 50.5 x 59.1 x 6.4 cm (19 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.) Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1985.64.9 |
Provenance
I. de La Rochenoire, by 1875.[1] Alexandre Dumas [1824-1895]; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 February 1882, no. 13, as La Lecture, figure). (Dumas sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-13 May 1892, no. 22).[2] (Dumas sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2-3 March 1896, no. 12). Gaillard collection, by 1905.[3] Ferdinand Blumenthal [d. 1914], Paris.[4] Count Cecil Pecci-Blunt [d. 1965], Paris, by 1936 until at least 1946.[5] (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold 27 January 1960 to Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] Lent by I. de la Rochenoire to Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 135.
[2] According to an annotated copy of sale catalogue in the M. Knoedler library, the painting was purchased by Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris. If, however, this is true, it is unclear how the painting came to be included in the Dumas estate sale in 1896.
[3] Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905: III:116, no. 1570, listed the Gaillard collection in the provenance.
[4] According to Wildenstein and Co. précis, dated 27 January 1960, in NGA curatorial files.
[5] Lent by Pecci-Blunt to Exposition Corot, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1936, no. 92, and Exhibition of Paintings by Corot, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1946, no. 60.