Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009135About the Artwork
Corot based his large oil painting on drawings and oil sketches made outdoors. Attracted to the beauty of the Italian countryside, he often sketched around Rome, where he lived from 1825 to 1828. This painting's highly structured composition, based on forms moving into the distance along a series of diagonals, is characteristic of Corot's early style and recalls the classical landscapes of 17th-century painter Nicholas Poussin.
Provenance
1889: Clément Jourdan [1836-1908], Paris, France, 1889. Seganville family, Château St. Pierre-de-Groupiac, France (Probably Harry Sperling, New York.) 1960-1963: Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris and New York, by 1960. 1963: Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris, France and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1963: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). Corot Exhibition. Gallery of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (organizer) (August 14-September 12, 1965); National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (October 1-November 7, 1965). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. National Gallery of Canada (June 20-September 22, 1996); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 21, 1996-January 19, 1997). Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all'Unita d'Italia: Capitale delle Arti. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Itlay (March 5-June 29, 2003). Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). Corot. Nature, Emotion, Souvenir. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (June 7-September 11, 2005); Palazzo dei Diamanti, 44110 Ferrara, Italy (October 9, 2005-January 8, 2006).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
- Date
- c. 1830–31
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 130 x 167.5 x 9.5 cm (51 3/16 x 65 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 97.6 x 135.8 cm (38 7/16 x 53 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1963.91
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