Souvenir of a Meadow at Brunoy
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(French, 1796–1875)
about 1855–65
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions90.5 x 115.9 cm (35 5/8 x 45 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Augustus Hemenway in memory of Louis and Amy Hemenway Cabot
Accession number16.1
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NOTES:
[1] He lent the painting to the exhibitions "Corot," École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875 (cat. no. 193) and "Maîtres Modernes," Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1878 (cat. no. 120), according to Alfred Robaut, "L'oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré" (1905), vol. 3, cat. no. 2417 and notes in the MFA curatorial file.
[2] According to information provided by Robert C. Vose, Vose Galleries (July 7, 1988). In 1915, Mrs. Hemenway's son, Augustus Hemenway, recalled that his mother had purchased the Corot painting for $10,000 about twenty years earlier. See: "Corot Picture to Art Museum," Boston Evening Globe, March 18, 1915.
In the nineteenth century, the painting was called "Ville d'Avray" and was published in Mrs. Hemenway's collection by E. Durand-Greville, "La Peinture aux États-Unis," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1887, p. 67 and Camille Thurwanger, "Corot," The New England Magazine, 5, no. 6 (February, 1892), p. 700.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot