Camille Corot
Waterfall at Terni
182626.7 x 30.8 cm
Oil on paper laid down on wood
Stamped lower right: VENTE / COROT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
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. 27
Provenance
the artist, Paris, until d. 1875
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26-28 May 1875, nr. 283, to Robaut
Alfred Robaut, Paris, from 1875
Paul Arthur Chéramy, Paris, by 1878–90, sold on 18 August 1890, to Boussod, Valadon
with Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Paris, from 1890, sold on 4 March to Rouen
H. Rouen
Pierre Dieterle, Paris
with André Pacitti, Paris, in 1963
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, until 1967, sold on 10 April to Robertson
Richard J. Robertson, Darien, Conn., 1967–died 1995
his estate sale, Christie's, New York, 1-2 November 1995, nr. 37, to Whitney
Wheelock Whitney III, New York, from 1995
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Bacchante by the Sea
1865
1865
Sibylle
c. 1870
c. 1870
View of Geneva
1839?
1839?
Passing the ford in the evening
1868
1868
The forest of Coubron
1872
1872