Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
The eel gatherers
c. 1860/6560 x 81 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: COROT
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. P.H.B. Frelinghuysen in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 617
Provenance
Alfred de Knyff (1819-1885), Paris, by 1878
Erwin Davis, New York
sold 1 May 1893 to Durand-Ruel et Cie., New York
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
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Moonlight
c. 1855
c. 1855
Farm Building at Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen
c. 1823-24
c. 1823-24
Interrupted Reading
c. 1870
c. 1870
Study for "The Destruction of Sodom"
1843
1843
A Lane through the Trees
c. 1870-73
c. 1870-73