Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau
1860/1865
Artist, French, 1796 - 1875
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G21
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46 x 59 cm (18 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.)
framed: 65.4 x 78.7 cm (25 3/4 x 31 in.) -
Accession
1963.10.110
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Given by the artist to Mme Camille Cornelie Isbert [1825-1911], Paris.[1] Paul Tesse, Paris, by 1881.[2] Alfred Robaut [1830-1909], Paris, before 1905.[3] (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1930, no. 28); purchased by (Etienne Bignou, Paris) for Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] According to Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905: III:26, no. 1313, the NGA painting was offered for sale by Corot to Mme. Isbert, a miniaturist.
[2] According to Robaut 1905 (see no. 1), and Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records, the painting was lent by Tesse to an exhibition in Lille 1881.
[3] The painting was not, however, in the sale of the Robaut collection, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 November 1919, which included another, considerably smaller (23 x 31.5 cm) sketch, no. 6, Dans la forêt de Fontainebleau.
[4] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records, the painting was acquired at the 12 June 1930 sale at Hôtel Drouot.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1881
Exposition, Lille, 1881.
1930
Eighth Loan Exhibition. Corot Daumier, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, no. 9.
1931
Renoir and his Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 8.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
2008
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 58.
Bibliography
1905
Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 3:no. 1313, as Fontainebleau, rocher dans l'ombre sous la feuille.
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 22, repro.
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 22, repro.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 30, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 31.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 39, repro.
1969
Durbe, Dario and Maris Damigella. La Scuolo di Barbizon. Milan, 1969: 52, pl. 26.
1972
Hours, Madeleine. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. New York, 1972: 48, fig. 54
1973
Bouret, Jean. The Barbizon School. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973: 81, repro. (French ed.: Neuchâtel, 1972)
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 78, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 432, no. 619, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 98, repro.
2000
Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 51-54, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: COROT
Wikidata ID
Q20188424