Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Letter



Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Letter
c. 1865
54.6 x 36.2 cm
Oil on wood
Signed lower left: COROT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929


Provenance

Gustave Arosa, Paris, probably before 1872–78
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 February 1878, nr. 13, to Pinart
M. Pinart, from 1878
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, until died 1929
her son, Horace Havemeyer, New York, 1929

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.160.33

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot View of Venice: The Piazzetta Seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Canteleu
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Hagar in the Wilderness
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The Cicada
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot View of Genzano
View of Genzano
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