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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (artist) French, 1796 - 1875 Italian Girl, c. 1872 oil on canvas Overall: 65 x 54.5 cm (25 9/16 x 21 7/16 in.) framed: 94.9 x 84.5 x 11.4 cm (37 3/8 x 33 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.) Gift of the Avalon Foundation 1954.6.1 |
Provenance
The artist to (Hector Brame, Paris), c. 1874.[1] Armand-François-Paul des Frisches, comte Doria [1824-1896], château d'Orrouy; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1899, no. 55, as Italienne). Charles Guasco; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11 June 1900, no. 13); purchased by Mme Robert Esnault Pelterie;[2] her son, Robert Esnault Pelterie [1891-1967] until 1954.[3] (Galerie Nathan, Zurich) and (Sam Salz, New York);[4] sold 10 June 1954 to the Avalon Foundation, New York, for NGA.
[1] Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905: III:296, no. 2146. [2] According to Galerie Georges Petit catalogue, 1910. [3] See correspondence between Robert Esnault-Pelterie and Jacques Seligmann Gallery dated 1949-1954 in Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, Box 34 (copies in NGA curatorial files). Esnault-Pelterie had the painting on consignment with Seligmann until 1954. [4] Letter dated 26 April 1999 from Galerie Nathan, in NGA curatorial files.