Camille Corot
Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau
1832 or 183339.7 x 49.5 cm
Oil on paper laid down on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1979
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. 28
Provenance
Célestin Nanteuil, from 183[5?], given to him by the artist
M. and Mme Larrieu
Mme Larrieu; François Louis Français, 1884–at least 1896
sale, William Doyle Galleries, New York, 16 May 1979, nr. 1, as School of Corot
Simon Parks, New York, 1979
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 1979, nr. 222
with E.V. Thaw, New York, 1979, sold to MMA
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Chalk Cliffs at Yport
1872
1872
Rocks in the forest of Fontainebleau
1860/65
1860/65
Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Fort Saint-André
1836 with additions c. 1870
1836 with additions c. 1870
A Woman Gathering Faggots at Ville-d
c. 1871-74
c. 1871-74
A view near Volterra
1838
1838