Camille Corot

A Woman Reading



Camille Corot - A Woman Reading



Camille Corot
A Woman Reading
1869 and 1870
54.3 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

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 28.90

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Camille Corot The Roman Campagna with the Claudian Aquaduct
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Florence: View from the Boboli Gardens
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c. 1835

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Man in Armor
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c. 1868-70

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Ischia View from the Slopes of Mount Epomeo
Ischia View from the Slopes of Mount Epomeo
1828

Camille Corot Ville-d'Avray
Ville-d'Avray
1870