Woman Meditating
after 1868
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Woman Meditating, after 1868. Copy after Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875). Oil on fabric; unframed: 59.4 x 42.9 cm (23 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1949.189 Scholars speculate that Camille Corot's model for this painting was Emma Dobigny, the frail young girl who posed for the two versions of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's painting Hope of 1872 (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore).
This painting, acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1949, as a work by Corot, proved to be a copy when the signed original reappeared at a public auction in New York in 1981.
This painting, acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1949, as a work by Corot, proved to be a copy when the signed original reappeared at a public auction in New York in 1981.
- Maker/Artist
- Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 59.4 x 42.9 cm (23 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1949.189
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter, Work of Camille Corot, Barbizon School, Corot Exhibition, San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts. Golden Gate International Exposition (1940), no. 247 (repr.).<br>New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec (1941), no. 14, Corot, Pensive Woman, lent by Jakob Goldschmidt (repr.).<br>New York, Wildenstein & Co. The Serene World of Corot (1942), no. 42, La Femme pensive, lent by J. Goldschmidt (repr.).<br>Art Institute of Chicago. Corot 1796-1875 (1960), no. 87 (repr.).<br>Indianapolis, Herron Museum. The Romantic Era: Birth and Flowering, 1750-1850 (1965), no. 45 (repr.).<br>Edinburgh International Festival. Corot (1965), no. 77 (repr.).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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