Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Letter
c. 186554.6 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
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Bride
c. 1845
c. 1845
A Nymph Playing with Cupid
The Lake at Ville-d'Avray Seen through Leaves
1871
1871
View of Genzano
1843
1843
Rebecca at the Well
1838-39
1838-39