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Agostina
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot1866
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Agostina
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date Created: 1866
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 132.4 x 97.6 cm (52 1/8 x 38 7/16 in.) framed: 173.7 x 138.4 cm (68 3/8 x 54 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Breysse, Paris, by 1875.[1] Jean-Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, 29 April 1878, no. 15). Jules Paton, Paris, by 1884.[2] Acquired 1906 by (Boussod Valadon et Cie., successeur de Goupil et. Cie, Paris); sold 1908 to Josse et Gaston Bernheim;[3] in the private collection of Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1909; purchased June 1931 through (Etienne Bignou) by Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] bequest 1963 to NGA. [1] Lent by Breysse to _Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot_, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 52, as _Etude de femme_. [2] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files. The painting does not appear in the only recorded sale of the Paton collection, held 24 April 1883. [3] Goupil et. Cie/Boussod Valadon et. Cie Stock Book no. 15, p. 165, no. 28865, Getty Research Institute. [4] Lent by Bernheim-Jeune to _Rétrospective de figures de Corot_, Salon d'Autumne, Paris, 1909, no. 11, as _l'Italienne Agostina_, according to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files. A photograph of this painting is included among the albums from the gallery of Etienne Bignou now at the Documentation, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (copies in NGA curatorial files), which suggests that Bignou was in possession of the picture at one time, probably in conjunction with Bernheim-Jeune. A letter dated 7 August 1931 from Bignou to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, details shipping instructons, M. Knoedler & Co. Records, Getty Research Institute (copy NGA curatorial files).
- Medium: oil on canvas
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