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

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

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La Cour d’une Maison de Paysan (The Courtyard of a Peasant’s House), near Domfromt, Normandy
CultureFrench
Titles
  • 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
Not on view

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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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