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The Eel Gatherers
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot1860/1865
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Eel Gatherers
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date Created: 1860/1865
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 60.5 x 81.5 cm (23 13/16 x 32 1/16 in.) framed: 80 x 106 x 7 cm (31 1/2 x 41 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Alfred de Knyff [1819-1885], Paris, by 1878.[1] Erwin Davis, New York;[2] sold 1 May 1893 to (Durand-Ruel et Cie., New York, stock no. 1070, as _Les Pêcheurs d'anguilles_); sold that same day to Henry Osborn Havemeyer [1847-1907] and his wife, née Louisine Waldron Elder [1855-1929], New York; their daughter, Mrs. P.H.B. Frelinghuysen, née Adaline Havemeyer [1884-1963], Morristown, New Jersey; gift 1943 to NGA. [1] Lent by de Knyff to _Exposition universelle_, Paris, 1878, no. 204. [2] Provenance between de Knyff and Havemeyers is according to _Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection_, Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993: 309.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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