Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Cow in a Barn
20.7 x 27.3 cmOil on paper, laid down on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
Provenance
the artist, Paris, until died 1875
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26-28 May 1875, nr. 373, to Houssaye
Arsène Houssaye, Paris, from 1875
Mrs. Giles Whiting, Scarborough-on-Hudson, N.Y., in 1962
sale, Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 13-14 November 1972, nr. 137, to Whitney
Wheelock Whitney III, New York, from 1972
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Rebecca at the Well
1838-39
1838-39
The Colosseum Seen through the Arches of the Basilica of Constantine
1825
1825
A Peasant Woman Grazing a Cow at the Edge of a Forest
1865/70
1865/70
The Boatman of Mortefontaine
c. 1865-70
c. 1865-70
Farm Building at Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen
c. 1822-24
c. 1822-24