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Beach near Etretat
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corotc. 1872
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Beach near Etretat
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date Created: c. 1872
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 12.3 x 25.5 cm (4 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.) framed: 25.4 x 38.1 x 3.2 cm (10 x 15 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: F. Stumpf, Paris; (Stumpf sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris 27 November 1894, no. 19, as _Marine_); purchased by (F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris).[1] Aimé Diot [d. 1896], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1897, no. 35, as _Falaises_). Nicolas Auguste Hazard [1834-1913], Paris; (Hazard sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 December 1919, no. 91, as _La Plage_); purchased by Rosenthal, Paris; (Rosenthal sale, Paris, 9 May 1934, no. 67); purchased by Dr. Georges Viau [1855-1939], Paris; (his estate sale, part I, 11 December 1942, no. 81).[2] Baron Pellenc, Paris, in 1944. André Schoëller [1879-1955], Paris, in 1945.[3] Captain Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[4] sold 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] Letter from Jean Dieterle, peintre-expert, dated 11 September 1970, in NGA curatorial files, gives Tempelaere as purchaser. [2] According to press reports and an annotated sales catalogue, copy in NGA curatorial records, the picture sold for 560,000 francs to an unnamed purchaser. [3] Pellenc and Schoeller per Dieterle letter cited in note 1. Schoeller acted as expert at the 1942 Viau sale. [4] Exhibited in _French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection_, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1952.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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