Camille Corot

Study for "The Destruction of Sodom"

Camille Corot

Study for "The Destruction of Sodom"

1843
35.9 x 49.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1984

Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 30

Provenance

Jean Parédés, Paris
Prévost, in 1897
his sale, Paris, 10 June, 1897, nr. 50, withdrawn
with Nat Leeb, Paris, until 1968, sold in December to Hirschl & Adler
with Hirschl & Adler, New York, 1968–74
sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1971, nr. 4, bought in
sale, Hôtel George V, Paris, 13-14 March 1974, nr. 6, bought in
sold on 9 November 1974 to Bühler
with Galerie Dr. Bühler, Munich, 1974–at least 1980
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 29 February 1984, nr. 14, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1984.75

Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Farm Building at Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen
c. 1823-24

The eel gatherers
c. 1860/65

Ville d'Avray
c. 1867/70

River scene with bridge
1834

A Lane through the Trees
c. 1870-73