Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003058Portrait of Abbé Jouveau
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Corot"; inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "le 25 Janvier 1875, offert à Mr. Jouveau, curé de Coubron"; inscribed verso, in graphite: "Bristol [?] noir devant. p.c. [in another hand] 17 bis n 2000 8 [?] no /"
Provenance
Madame Abbe Jouveau, from 1875 [inscription]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1979.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-July 29, 1989. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection, 1974-1989," February 2-May 8, 1990. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, "Camille Corot: Natur und Traum", September 28, 2012 - January 6, 2013, p. 352, cat. 197 (ill.)
Publications
Alfred Robault, L'Oeuvre de Corot, 4 (1905) no. 3035 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 72–3 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot / French, 1796-1875
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Graphite, with traces of charcoal, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 31.4 × 23.5 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1979.370
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