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View of Genoa

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1834

Provenance

Ownership history

Estate of the artist, Paris; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26-28, 1875, lot 68, for 3.550 fr. to M. Brame [annotated sale catalogue in object file]; Brame collection, Paris, 1875 until before 1890. Ernest May, Paris, until 1890; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 4, 1890, lot 20, for 7.100 fr. [sale catalogue in object file]. Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1905 [Robault, 1905]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot, Daumier: Eight Loan Exhibition, October 16 – November 23, 1930, cat. 14 (ill.).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Figure and Landscape Paintings by J.B.C. Corot, November 12 – December 1, 1934, cat. 2 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Serene World of Corot: An Exhibition in Aid of the Salvation Army War Fund, November 11 – December 12, 1942, cat. 17 (ill.).
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Small Paintings by Corot, November 6 – December 4, 1943.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corot 1796-1875, May 11 – June 16, 1946, cat. 16 (ill.).
Art Gallery of Toronto, J. B. C. Corot 1796-1875, January – February 1950, cat. 9.
Dayton Art Institute, The City by the River and the Sea: Five Centuries of Skylines, Loan Exhibition, April 18 – June 3, 1951, cat. 17 (ill.).
Venice, XXVI Biennale, Room XXXI, J. B. Camille Corot, 1952, cat. 7.
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by J.B. C. Corot, December 16, 1956 – January 17, 1957, cat. 9.
Art Institute of Chicago, Corot 1796-1875: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Graphic Works, October 6 – November 13, 1960, cat. 34.
San Diego, Timken Art Gallery, J.-B.-C. Corot: View of Volterra, May 8 – June 26, 1988, cat. 10 (ill.); Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, July 15 – September 11, 1988.
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Corot 1796-1875, February 27 – May 27, 1996, cat. 53; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 21- September 22, 1996; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 22, 1996 – January 19, 1997.

Literature

Published references

Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonné et illustré, précédé de l’histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres vol. 2 (Paris: H. Floury, 1905), no. 301 (ill.) (reprinted Paris 1965).
Julius Meier-Graefe, Corot (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer und Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930), 46.
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1937), 46.
“Small Paintings by Corot,” Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts Monthly Bulletin, 14 (November 1943): n. pag.
Germain Bazin, “Sotto gli occhi di Corot la natura si disponeva come in un quadro,” La Biennale di Venezia 8 (April 1952): 4 (ill.).
Giulia Veronese “Corot,” Emporium 116 (July/August 1952): 13 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 85.
Jean Leymarie, Corot: Biographical and Critical Study, trans. Stuart Gilbert (Geneva: Skira, 1966), 50 (ill.).
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1970), 70 (ill.), 279.
Madeleine Hours, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1972), 86, 87 (ill.).
Max-Pol Fouchet, Corot (Paris: H. Scrépel, 1975), 80.
Jean Leymarie, Corot, trans. Stuart Gilbert (New York: Rizzoli, 1979), 52 (ill.), 53.

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