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Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras

Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras

1871
(French, 1796–1875)
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.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Corot began his career as a draper and his exposure to the colors and textures of fabrics helped him develop an astute aesthetic sense.

Description

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.
  • ?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
  • Warner, Langdon. "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art IV, no. 1 (January, 1917):3-8. Mentioned: p. 3
    Robaut, Alfred, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Œuvre de Corot. Paris, France: H. Floury, 1905. Reproduced: no. 2013, vol. 3
    Milliken, William. "The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34 (June 13, 1936): 7-14. Mentioned: P. 13
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. Reproduced: p. 248, vol. 2
    Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America. New York, NY: Rand McNally, 1955. Reproduced: p. 40
    Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979. Reproduced: p. 66
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 44
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 58
    Horbez, Dominique. Corot et les peintres de l'école d'Arras. Tournai, Belgium: La Renaissance du Livre, 2004. Reproduced: p. 115
    Corot: natura, emozione, ricordo : Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 7 giugno-11 settembre 2005, Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, 9 ottobre 2005-8 gennaio 2006. Ferrara, Spain: Ferrara arte, 2005. Reproduced: p. 153, fig. 67
  • Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
    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).
    Barbizon School. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-March 3, 1963).
    Impressionists and their Forebears from Barbizon. Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, TX (organizer) (March 8-April 2, 1961).
    Work of Camille Corot. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (October 5-November 13, 1960).
    Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).
    35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
    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).
    French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
    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).
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