Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Muse: History



Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Muse: History
c. 1865
46 x 35.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: COROT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929


Provenance

the artist, Paris, until died 1875
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, première partie, 26-28 May 1875, nr. 176, to M. Lévy
Léon Michel-Lévy, Paris, 1875–99, sold on 25 January 1899, through Brame fils to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1899, sold on 8 March to Durand-Ruel, New York
with Durand-Ruel, New York, 1899, sold on 6 April to Havemeyer
Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, 1899–his death 1907
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, 1907–died 1929

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.193

Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot


Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot View of Lormes
View of Lormes
early 1840s

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Melancholy Italian Woman (Rome)
Melancholy Italian Woman (Rome)
1826-27

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot View of the Grand Canal, Venice, from the Riva degli Schiavoni
View of the Grand Canal, Venice, from the Riva degli Schiavoni
1828

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Mountainous Landscape
Mountainous Landscape

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Reverie
Reverie
c. 1860-65