Interrupted Reading

1. M. Jules de La Rochenoire (1825-1899), Paris by 1875 [see Paris 1875]. Alexandre Dumas fils, Paris by 1882; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, February 16, 1882, lot 15, as La Rêverie, figure, bought in for 2,450 francs; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 12-13, 1892, lot 24, as La Rêverie, sold for 4,300 francs to Durand-Ruel, Paris [stock no. 2212, according to Paris, Ottawa, New York 1996]; sold for 20,000 francs to Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, on May 17, 1892; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’Oeuvre de Corot, 1875, cat. 93.
• Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Museum, Exhibition of French Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March 6-April 6, 1929, cat. 12.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot-Daumier: Eight Loan Exhibition, October 16-November 13, 1930, cat. 29 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 231 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 164.
• New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Figure and Landscape Paintings by J. B. C. Corot, November 12-December 1, 1934, cat. 20 (ill.).
• Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Corot, 1936, cat. 82 (ill.).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corot, 1796-1875, 1946, cat. 49 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1796-1875: An Exhibition of his Paintings and Graphic Work, October 6-November 13, 1960, cat. 99 (ill.).
• New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings: Masterpieces: Memorial Exhibition for Adele Rosenwald Levy, April 6-May 7, 1961, cat. 32 (ill.).
• Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections: A Sections of Paintings and Drawings lent by the Family, by the Estate of Pauline K. Palmer and by the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, February 23-March 24, 1963, cat. 7 (ill.).
• Edinburgh Festival Society, Corot: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, August 14-September 12, 1965, cat. 81 (ill.).

• Alfred Robaut, L’oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré, précédé de l’histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres vol. 3 (Paris, 1905), no. 1431 (ill.) (reprinted Paris 1965).
• Julius Meier-Graefe, Camille Corot (Munich 1913), p. 107.
• August F. Jaccaci, “Figure Pieces of Corot in America: II,” Art in America 2, 1(1914), pp. 3 (ill.), 5.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, 1922), no. 811.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), no. 811.
• “Corots in The Art Institute,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 18, 8 (1924), p. 102 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide of the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 131, no. 811.
• Julius Meier-Graefe, “Corots Wahlspruch,” Kunst und Künstler 28 (1929), p. 51 (ill.).
• C. Bernheim de Villers, Corot: peintre de figures (Paris, 1930), no. 235 (ill.).
• Julius Meier-Graefe, Corot (Berlin, 1930), pl. 107.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide of the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 147, no. 22.410.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1935), p. 27 (ill.).

Remembrance of Italy

Art Institute of Chicago

Souvenir of Tuscany

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape

Art Institute of Chicago

Wounded Eurydice

Art Institute of Chicago

Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts

Art Institute of Chicago

Bathing Nymphs and Child

Art Institute of Chicago

Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi

Art Institute of Chicago

View of Genoa

Art Institute of Chicago

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