Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009488Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest
About the Artwork
Camille Corot painted this charming woodland scene during the summer of 1842 while visiting Lormes, a small village in the Morvan region of Burgundy. The area was known for its dense woodlands and picturesque falls. Corot included a seated goat shepherd leaning against a curving tree trunk, but instead of commanding the viewers attention, the human presence is overshadowed by the dynamic interlacing forms of the tree trunks and branches that stretch up and across the canvas.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: Corot 1842
Provenance
March 28, 1878: Paris sale, Drouot salle 3, 29 March 1878 (lot 15), Paysanne près d'une source, dans la forêt de Fontainebleau, ff 1,300. after 1878–by 1942: Hugo Nathan, Frankfurt, Germany by 1942–before 1960: Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1942. by 1960–by 1962: J. K. Thannhauser, New York, NY, by 1960 1962: Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1962–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994). 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).
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
- 1842
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 52.3 x 70.3 cm (20 9/16 x 27 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1962.35
More by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00009488
Powered by Art Trackers