Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
La Cour d’une Maison de Paysan (The Courtyard of a Peasant’s House), near Domfromt, Normandy

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Artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot(French, 1796–1875)French, 1796–1875

CultureFrench

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La Cour d’une Maison de Paysan (The Courtyard of a Peasant’s House), near Domfromt, Normandy

Datec. 1853-57

MediumOil on paper, mounted on paperboard

DimensionsSheet: 9 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (24.8 × 22.1 cm)
Paperboard: 9 7/8 × 8 7/8 × 1/8 in. (25.1 × 22.5 × 0.3 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, gift of Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Lesley McCary Schlumberger and in memory of Pierre Marcel Schlumberger

Object number2022.332

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Prints and Drawings

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The Stuart Collection

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PAINTING

ProvenanceAndré Julien Prevost (French, b. 1840), c. 1873; possibly Henry Bare Collection, Lille, France, or Enghien, Belgium, early 20th century; possibly Timken Collection; [Parke-Bernett, New York, possibly in the 1920s]; purchased by Mrs. Robert Cummins Stuart III (née Rosa Allen), later Mrs. Thomas Walter Williams, c. 1927–55; bequeathed to Francita Stuart, October 1955; Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer, 1955–2022; given to MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition Historynone
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed in brown paint, bottom left corner: COROT [print]
Verso: three paper labels adhered vertically at center

Recto: Signed in brown paint, bottom left corner: COROT [print]

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Catalogue raisonnéRobaut, Alfred. L'oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonne et illustre precede de l'histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres par Etienne Moreau-Nelaton... Paris: H. Floury, 1905, republished Paris: Leonce Laget, 1965, 2:122, no. 346 (dated 1830-35).

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