Bathing Nymphs and Child

Paris, Palais Galliera, Exposition organisé au profit du monument du centenaire du Corot, May–June 1895, cat. 34.

Gustave Claudon (possibly lent to Paris 1875)

Paris, L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’Oeuvre de Corot, 1875, cat. 178.

James N. Wood, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), p. 17 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 165.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 147.

Art Institute of Chicago, Kimball Gallery of Paintings: XVII to XIX Century (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1928), pp. 11–12.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 131, no. 751.

M. C., “Corots in the Art Institute,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 18, 8 (1924), pp. 100 (ill.), 101.

Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Treasures,” America Today – Fort Dearborn Magazine (1924), p. 26.

Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 64, no. 751.

Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 64, no. 751.

bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Eleanor Jewett, “Art and Architecture At Art Institute – the Kimball and Palmer Collections,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 3, 1921), p. D4.

“Mrs. Kimball, 80, Dies in ‘Home of $2,000,000 Art’,” Chicago Daily Tribune (June 14, 1921), p. 17.

“Chicago Inherits $2,000,000 in Art,” American Art News (June 25, 1921), p. 1.

on loan to the Art Institute from 1920 [see Bulletin of the Art Institute 1920]

“Notes: The Kimball Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), pp. 69 (ill.), 77.

Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 59, no. 751.

Louise James Bargelt, “Art: Kimball Exhibit at Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 9, 1916), p. E6.

Arthur Hoeber, Barbizon Painters: Being the Story of the Men of Thirty (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1915; reprinted 1969), opp. p. 111 (ill.).

sold to Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago, for $7,000, April 9, 1909 [according to the Knoedler stockbook cited above]

sold in equal shares to Scott and Fowles, New York, and Knoedler & Co., New York, for £13,000, June 14, 1907 [according Knoedler stockbook no. 11481, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and the letter cited above]

E. G. Halton, “The Collection of Mr. Alexander Young: I – the Corots,” The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Art 30, 117 (1906), pp. 6 (ill.), 12.

sold by Young to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, July 24, 1906 [according to a letter from Richard Kingzett, Agnews, to Martha Howard, Art Institute, dated July 20, 1990, in curatorial file]

Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré précédé de L’histoire de Corot et de ses Oeuvres (Paris: Floury, 1905; reprint, 1965), vol. 2, no. 1113.

Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists: 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 69, 70 (ill), 117.

Edward J. Sullivan, ed., The Taft Museum: European and American Paintings (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995), p. 248, fig. 2.

Theodore Reff, Exhibitions of Barbizon and Landscape Art, Modern Art in Review (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981), no pag.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), p. 62.

Faber Birren, History of Color in Painting: With New Principles of Color Expression (New York: Reinhold Publishing, 1965), p. 266, fig. 10-24.

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Arts of Man: A Selection from Ancient to Modern Times, October 6–December 31, 1962, no cat. no.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 86.

Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1796–1875: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Graphic Work, October 6–November 13, 1960, cat. 83.

sold in equal shares to Goupil & Cie, Paris and Knoedler & Co., Paris, for 17,000 francs, July 3, 1899 [according to Goupil stockbook no. 26031, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]