Camille Corot
A Woman Reading
1869 and 187054.3 x 37.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: [COR]OT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Louise Senff Cameron, in memory of her uncle, Charles H. Senff, 1928
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. 33
Literature
Richard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-century art in the Norton Simon Museum, New Haven, 2006, fig. 23a
Provenance
Oscar Simon, Dinard, until 1894, sold on 4 October to Boussod, Valadon
with Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, 1894, sold on 7 November to Knoedler
with Knoedler, New York, 1894–95, sold 7 November to Senff
Charles H. Senff, New York, 1895–died 1911
his estate, 1911–28
sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 28-29 March 1928, nr. 61 to Cameron
his niece, Louise Senff Cameron, New Windsor, N.Y., 1928
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Roman Campagna with the Claudian Aquaduct
Man in Armor
c. 1868-70
c. 1868-70
Ville-d'Avray
1870
1870
Ischia View from the Slopes of Mount Epomeo
1828
1828
The Destruction of Sodom
1843 and 1857
1843 and 1857