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Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot1860/1865
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date Created: 1860/1865
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 46 x 59 cm (18 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.) framed: 65.4 x 78.7 cm (25 3/4 x 31 in.)
- Provenance: Given by the artist to Mme Camille Cornelie Isbert [1825-1911], Paris.[1] Paul Tesse, Paris, by 1881.[2] Alfred Robaut [1830-1909], Paris, before 1905.[3] (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1930, no. 28); purchased by (Etienne Bignou, Paris) for Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] bequest 1963 to NGA. [1] According to Alfred Robaut, _L'oeuvre de Corot_, Paris, 1905: III:26, no. 1313, the NGA painting was offered for sale by Corot to Mme. Isbert, a miniaturist. [2] According to Robaut 1905 (see no. 1), and Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records, the painting was lent by Tesse to an exhibition in Lille 1881. [3] The painting was not, however, in the sale of the Robaut collection, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 November 1919, which included another, considerably smaller (23 x 31.5 cm) sketch, no. 6, _Dans la forêt de Fontainebleau_. [4] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records, the painting was acquired at the 12 June 1930 sale at Hôtel Drouot.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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