Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
View of Genzano with a Rider and Peasant
1843 or later18.4 x 29.2 cm
Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard
Signed lower left: C. COROT.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
Provenance
the artist, Rome (reportedly given in 1843 to Le Go)
Alexis-René Le Go, Rome and La Seyne-sur-Mer, Var until died 1883
Le Go family, by descent, sold to Hopkins-Thomas-Custot
with Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris
Eugene V. Thaw, New York, by 2002–9
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Thaw Collection, 2009
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Banks of the Seine at Conflans
c. 1865-70
c. 1865-70
Mountainous Landscape
Memory of Coubron
1872
1872
Jesus and Saint John (Study for The Baptism of Christ)
c. 1844-45
c. 1844-45
Girl Weaving a Garland
1860-65
1860-65