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Bathing Nymphs and Child

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1855–60

Provenance

Ownership history

Gustave Claudon (possibly lent to Paris 1875); sold in equal shares to Goupil & Cie, Paris and Knoedler & Co., Paris, for 17,000 francs, July 3, 1899 [according to Goupil stockbook no. 26031, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; sold to Alexander Young, London, for 225,000 francs, July 31, 1899 [according to the Goupil stockbook cited above]; sold by Young to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, July 24, 1906 [according to a letter from Richard Kingzett, Agnews, to Martha Howard, Art Institute, dated July 20, 1990, in curatorial file]; sold in equal shares to Scott and Fowles, New York, and Knoedler & Co., New York, for £13,000, June 14, 1907 [according Knoedler stockbook no. 11481, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and the letter cited above]; sold to Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago, for $7,000, April 9, 1909 [according to the Knoedler stockbook cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1920 [see Bulletin of the Art Institute 1920]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’Oeuvre de Corot, 1875, cat. 178.
Paris, Palais Galliera, Exposition organisé au profit du monument du centenaire du Corot, May–June 1895, cat. 34.
Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 165.
Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1796–1875: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Graphic Work, October 6–November 13, 1960, cat. 83.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Arts of Man: A Selection from Ancient to Modern Times, October 6–December 31, 1962, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré précédé de L’histoire de Corot et de ses Oeuvres (Paris: Floury, 1905; reprint, 1965), vol. 2, no. 1113.
E. G. Halton, “The Collection of Mr. Alexander Young: I – the Corots,” The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Art 30, 117 (1906), pp. 6 (ill.), 12.
Arthur Hoeber, Barbizon Painters: Being the Story of the Men of Thirty (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1915; reprinted 1969), opp. p. 111 (ill.).
Louise James Bargelt, “Art: Kimball Exhibit at Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 9, 1916), p. E6.
“Notes: The Kimball Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), pp. 69 (ill.), 77.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 59, no. 751.
“Mrs. Kimball, 80, Dies in ‘Home of $2,000,000 Art’,” Chicago Daily Tribune (June 14, 1921), p. 17.
“Chicago Inherits $2,000,000 in Art,” American Art News (June 25, 1921), p. 1.
Eleanor Jewett, “Art and Architecture At Art Institute – the Kimball and Palmer Collections,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 3, 1921), p. D4.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 64, no. 751.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 64, no. 751.
Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Treasures,” America Today – Fort Dearborn Magazine (1924), p. 26.

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