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Woman Meditating
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corotafter 1868
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This painting, acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1949, as a work by Corot, proved to be a copy when the signed original reappeared at a public auction in New York in 1981. Although the original, <em>Jeune Femme Pensive</em> or <em>La Méditation</em>, is not in the Corot catalogue raisonné compiled by his friend Alfred Robaut, that painting does have an unquestionable origin. According to one source, Corot painted the original version in Paris in 1866–68 and allowed his pupil, Eugène Lavieille, to make a copy with permission.
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- Title: Woman Meditating
- Creator: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
- Date Created: after 1868
- Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 59.4 x 42.9 cm (23 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Probably Gottfried Tanner, Bahnhofstrasse 39, Zürich. Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin. (According to notes in the file on "Matthiesen Gallery, London" in the cma archive, the Berlin gallery's records were destroyed during World War II.) Jakob Goldschmidt, New York, by 1941. Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York. Purchased by the CMA in 1949.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.189
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Fun Fact: Scholars speculate that Camille Corot's model for this painting was Emma Dobigny, the frail young girl who posed for the two versions of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's painting <em>Hope</em> of 1872 (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore).<br><br>This painting, acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1949, as a work by Corot, proved to be a copy when the signed original reappeared at a public auction in New York in 1981.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1949.189
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