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

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Artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille CorotFrench, 1796–1875

CultureFrench

Titles

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

Date1830-1835

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

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceAndré Julien Prevost (French, b. 1840) c. 1873 (label on verso) [1]; possibly Collection Henry Bare, Lille, France or Enghien, Belgium, early 20th century (label on verso) [2]; possibly, Timken Collection; [New York, Parke-Bernett, possibly 1920s]; sold to Mrs. Robert Cummins Stuart III (Rosa Allen), later Mrs. Thomas Walter Williams, c. 1927-1955; Bequeathed to Francita Stuart, 1955; Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer, 1955–2022; given to MFAH, 2022

[1] André Julien Prévost was an admirer and follower of Corot often making painted landscapes after the esteemed artist’s style. He was also a collector of Corot’s paintings. Hotel Drouot, Catalogue de Tableaux et études par Corot composant la Collection Prévost (Catalogue of Paintings and oil studies by Corot from the Prévost Collection), May 24, 1887 (Paris: Chevaillier et MM. Haro Freres, 1887).

[2] Henry Bare also has works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (60.71.11) and a Landscape until 1914.

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 Cat 346

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