View of Genoa

Brame collection, Paris, 1875 until before 1890. Ernest May, Paris, until 1890

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]

Genoa, Italy, Palazzo Ducale, Viaggio in Italia: Un corteo magico dal Cinquecento al Novecento, March 31 – July 29, 2001, cat. XI.13 (ill.).

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by J.B. C. Corot, December 16, 1956 – January 17, 1957, cat. 9.

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.).

Venice, XXVI Biennale, Room XXXI, J. B. Camille Corot, 1952, cat. 7.

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.).

Art Gallery of Toronto, J. B. C. Corot 1796-1875, January – February 1950, cat. 9.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corot 1796-1875, May 11 – June 16, 1946, cat. 16 (ill.).

Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Small Paintings by Corot, November 6 – December 4, 1943.

“Small Paintings by Corot,” Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts Monthly Bulletin, 14 (November 1943): n. pag.

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.).

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1937), 46.

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.).

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]

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot, Daumier: Eight Loan Exhibition, October 16 – November 23, 1930, cat. 14 (ill.).

Julius Meier-Graefe, Corot (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer und Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930), 46.

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).

Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: H.N. Abrams, 1987), 24 (ill.), 25.

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.

Peter Galassi, Corot en Italie: La Peinture de plein air et la tradition classique, trans. Jeanne Bouniort (Paris: Gallimard, 1991), 213, pl. 268; 214 [English ed. Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), 213, pl. 268, 214].

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.

Jean Selz, La Vie et l’oeuvre de Camille Corot (Paris: ACR, 1988), 78, 100 (ill.).

Fronia E. Wissman, “J.-B.-C. Corot: View of Volterra,” in Timken Art Gallery and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, J.-B.-C. Corot: View of Volterra, exh. cat. (San Diego: Putnam Foundation, 1988), n. p., fig. 12.

Richard Shiff, Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 102-3; 104 fig. 17; 107; 112; 119.

Ennio Poleggi and Paolo Cevini, Genova (Roma: Laterza, 1981), 9, fig. 5.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 62.

Jean Leymarie, Corot, trans. Stuart Gilbert (New York: Rizzoli, 1979), 52 (ill.), 53.

Max-Pol Fouchet, Corot (Paris: H. Scrépel, 1975), 80.

Madeleine Hours, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1972), 86, 87 (ill.).

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1970), 70 (ill.), 279.

Jean Leymarie, Corot: Biographical and Critical Study, trans. Stuart Gilbert (Geneva: Skira, 1966), 50 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 85.

Art Institute of Chicago, Corot 1796-1875: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Graphic Works, October 6 – November 13, 1960, cat. 34.