Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009381Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras
About the Artwork
With its quiet water and sky, fluffy trees, and other foliage flecked with light, this picture exemplifies the style that won Corot success with a wide public. It was painted during the artist's stay at Arras (about 100 miles north of Paris) in 1871.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: corot
Provenance
?1871-1872: (Probably Goupil Gallery, New York, NY) ca. 1871-72, sold to Bernhard Stern) by 1872-1890: Bernhard Stern, New York, NY 1890: (American Art Galleries, New York, NY, Stern and Evans collections, March 6. 1890, lot 125, sold to Knoedler & Co.) 1890: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, April 12, 1890, sold to Jeptha Homer Wade Jr.) 1890-1916: Mr. J.H. Wade, Jr. [1957-1926] and Mrs. J. H.Wade, Jr. [1859-1917], Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1916-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956). Work of Camille Corot. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (October 5-November 13, 1960). Impressionists and their Forebears from Barbizon. Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, TX (organizer) (March 8-April 2, 1961). Barbizon School. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-March 3, 1963). Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais (organizer) (February 27-May 27, 1996); National Gallery of Canada (June 20-September 22, 1996); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 21, 1996-January 19, 1997). Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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
- 1871
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 59.4 x 72.1 x 9 cm (23 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 36.3 x 44.4 cm (14 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Accession no.
- 1916.1047
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