Clump of Trees at Civita Castellana
1826
Artist, French, 1796 - 1875
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and graphite with white heightening on brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 26.5 x 35.2 cm (10 7/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1990.47.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
A. Stroelin, Lausanne; (sale, Gutekunst and Klipstein, Bern, 22 November 1956, no. 66); Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976]; by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George Baer; designated purchase by NGA with funds contributed by Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1958, no. 44 (cat. by Agnes Mongan).
1960
Corot, 1796-1875, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960, no. 144.
Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 1960, no. 15.
1985
Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, The Curtis O. Baer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and tour, 1985-1987, no. 71 (cat. by Eric M. Zafran).
1991
Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pp. 142-143.
2012
Camille Corot: Natur und Traum [Camille Corot: Nature and Dream], Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2012-2013.
Bibliography
2012
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 47-48, fig. 1 (color).
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Civita Castellana / 1826
Wikidata ID
Q64581185