Italian Woman (La Morieri)
c. 1872
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Artist, French, 1796 - 1875
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 65.2 × 55.1 cm (25 11/16 × 21 11/16 in.)
framed: 94.9 x 84.5 x 11.4 cm (37 3/8 x 33 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1954.6.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist to (Hector Brame, Paris), c. 1874.[1] Armand-François-Paul des Frisches, comte Doria [1824-1896], château d'Orrouy; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1899, no. 55, as Italienne). Charles Guasco; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11 June 1900, no. 13); purchased by Mme Robert Esnault-Pelterie;[2] her son, Robert Esnault-Pelterie [1891-1957], until 1954.[3] (Galerie Nathan, Zurich) and (Sam Salz, New York);[4] sold 10 June 1954 to the Avalon Foundation, New York, for NGA.
[1] Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905: III:296, no. 2146.
[2] According to the catalogue of a 1910 exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.
[3] See correspondence between Robert Esnault-Pelterie and Jacques Seligmann Gallery dated 1949-1954 in Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, Box 34 (copies in NGA curatorial files). Esnault-Pelterie had the painting on consignment with Seligmann until 1954.
[4] Letter dated 26 April 1999 from Galerie Nathan, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1910
Exposition des chefs d'oeuvre de l'Ecole française, vingt peintures du XIXe siècle, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1910, no. 25
1946
Corot, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1946, no. 71, repro., as La Morieri
1969
In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.
1992
From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 39, repro.
2017
Desnudo en el paisaje: Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez (1824-1904), Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, 2017-2018.
2018
Corot: Women, Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018, no. 14, repro.
Bibliography
1905
Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905: 3:no. 296, as La Morieri.
1910
Hamel, M. "Exposition des chefs-d'oeuvre de l'ecole française, vingt peintres du XIXe siècle chez Petit," Les Arts (August 1910): 319, repro. as La Morieri
1930
Bernheim de Villers, C. Corot, peintre de figures, Paris, 1930: no. 319, repro., as La Morieri.
1951
Morse, J.D. "Corot as a Figure Painter," The American Artist 15 (1951): 28-29, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 323, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 30.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 23, repro.
1972
Nathan Fine Arts. Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922-1972. Zürich, 1972: no. 41, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 76, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 432, no. 624, color repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 428, no. 612, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 95, repro.
1998
Yeide, Nancy. "Hector Brame: An art dealer in nineteenth-century Paris." Apollo (March 1998): 42, fig. 8.
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: 85-88, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: COROT
Wikidata ID
Q20188751