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Ville-d'Avray
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corotc. 1865
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Ville-d'Avray
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date Created: c. 1865
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 49.3 x 65.5 cm (19 7/16 x 25 13/16 in.) framed: 81.3 x 97.5 x 11.6 cm (32 x 38 3/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Theodore Bonjean, Paris); sold 1890 to (Boussod Valadon et Cie., Paris); resold 1890 to (Theodore Bonjean, Paris).[1] Monsieur Bruneau, Paris, by 1895.[2] Ferdinand Blumenthal [d. 1914], Paris; his son Count Cecil Pecci-Blunt [d. 1965], Paris and New York;[3] gift 1955 to NGA. [1] According to Boussod Valadon stockbooks (Dieterle collection, Series II, Box 12, p. 154, Getty Center Library, copies in NGA curatorial files). See also Alfred Robaut, _L'oeuvre de Corot_, Paris, 1905: III:88, no. 1505. [2] Lent by Bruneau to _Exposition de centenaire de Corot_, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1895, no. 23. [3] Pecci-Blunt had the painting on consignment with Jacques Seligmann in 1941 but decided not to sell his collection at that time. Receipt for the return of the paintings to Pecci-Blunt dated November 19, 1941, Jacques Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 75, folder 30. Lent by Pecci-Blunt through Seligmann to _The Functions of Color in Painting_, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, 1941. See Correspondence between Seligmann and Phillips in Jacques Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 130, folder 5 (copies NGA curatorial files).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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