Camille Corot
Study for "The Destruction of Sodom"
184335.9 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his sale, Paris, 10 June, 1897, nr. 50, withdrawn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
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The eel gatherers
c. 1860/65
c. 1860/65
Interrupted Reading
c. 1870
c. 1870
A Lane through the Trees
c. 1870-73
c. 1870-73
Madame Stumpf and her daughter
1872
1872
River scene with bridge
1834
1834