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Sketch to show how six paintings should be hung
Sketch to show how six paintings should be hung

Sketch to show how six paintings should be hung

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
1860s
Medium/TechniquePen, brown ink, and brown wash on cream, ruled writing paper
DimensionsSheet: 10.2 × 7.8 cm (4 × 3 1/16 in.)
Mount: 17 × 12.2 cm (6 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number62.754
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceDr. Albert Victor Simon (b. about 1900), Paris; to Cécile Simon-Roland, Paris [see note]; April 11, 1962, Simon-Roland and others sale, Sotheby's, London, part of lot 21, sold for £200 to Laing 1962, sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 19, 1962)

NOTE: Sold as "the property of Mme. Cécile Simon-Roland, formerly in the collection of Dr. Victor Simon, Paris."