Jean Baptiste Camille Corot - Diana and Actaeon



Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Diana and Actaeon
1836
156.5 x 112.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated (lower right): COROT 1836
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert Lehman Collection


Literature

Richard R. Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker, Natalie H. Lee, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York; Princeton, 2009, nr. 4


Provenance

Lenormant, Paris
Bouvier-Lenormant, by descent, Paris
sold to Reitlinger et Tédesco, Paris, 1873
Gellinard Collection, Paris, until 1888
Gellinard Collection sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 March, 1888, nr. 41
Mellerio Collection, Paris, 1894
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 March 1908, nr. 13
Bessonneau d'Angers Collection
his son-in-law (?) M. Frappier, by 1923
Mme Frappier, by 1925 until at least 1930
Bessonneau d'Angers Collection sale, Galerie Charpentier, 15 June 1954, nr. 22
acquired at the Bessonneau d'Angers sale, through Charles Durand-Ruel, by Robert Lehman, New York, 1954.
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c. 1823-24

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