Camille Corot
A Village Street: Dardagny
1852, 1857 or 186334.3 x 24.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and inscribed: (lower left) COROT; (center right, on wall) 48
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
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. 29
Provenance
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1873, nr. 28 to Fréret
Louis Fréret, from 1873
Albert Wolff, Paris, in 1875
T. Bascle, Paris, until 1883
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-14 April 1883, nr. 19
Collis P. Huntington, New York, until d. 1900
his bequest to MMA with life interest to his widow, Arabella D. Huntington, later [from 1913] Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, 1900–died 1924
life interest to their son, Archer Milton Huntington, 1924–terminated in 1925
Other works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Christ on the Mount of Olives
1849
1849
The lake of Piediluco
1826
1826
Gypsy girl with mandolin
c. 1870/75
c. 1870/75
Bridge on the Saone River at Macon
1834
1834
Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)
1836
1836