Rural Woman on a Path with a View of a Village

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Rural Woman on a Path with a View of a Village

Artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French, 1796–1875

Datecirca 1850–1860

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions9 3/4 × 13 × 1 in. (24.8 × 33 × 2.5 cm)
frame: 15 3/4 × 19 3/8 × 3 1/8 in. (40 × 49.2 × 7.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Joan Huntley

Object number2021.15.2

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated France, ca. 1850–1860. [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 29, 1877, no. 10, as Paysage]; M. Diot. [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 12, 1902]; [Obach & Co., London, 1902]. [Arnold & Tripp, Paris, 1905, no. 6018]. [Galerie Tempelaere or Galerie F & J Tempelaere, Paris, April 1907] [1]. Emile Staub (1867–1929), Männedorf, Switzerland; to his wife Alma Staub-Terlinden (1883–1970), Männedorf, Switzerland and New York City, until at least 1942 [2]. [Haseltine, London, 1977]; [Shickman Gallery, New York, 1978]; [Gallery Lida, Tokyo, 1978]; Daimaru Department Store, Kobe, Japan; private collection, circa 1978; thence by descent; [Sotheby's, New York, November 4, 2011, no. 91]; Dr. Joan Huntley, Chapel Hill, NC; bequeathed to NCMA, 2019.

[1] Julien and Ferdinand Tempelaere rebranded their business as “Galerie F & J Tempelaere” at some point following the death of their father Gustave in 1904.
[2] Alma Staub-Terlinden moved to New York in March 1939. She loaned the painting to the Wildenstein & Co. Corot exhibition in 1942.
Published ReferencesCatalogue de Tableaux Modernes (auction catalogue) (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, January 29, 1877), lot 10, as Paysage.

A. Robaut, L’oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré (Paris, 1905), vol. II, 306, no. 996, illus. b/w, 307.

Camille Corot, 1796–1875 (exhibition catalogue) (Zürich: Kunsthaus, 1934), cat. no. 79.

Peintures françaises en Suisse (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Wildenstein and Company, 1938), cat. no. 24.

The Serene World of Corot: an exhibition in aid of the Salvation Army War Fund (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Wildenstein and Company, 1942), cat no. 32, illus.

19th Century European Art (auction catalogue) (New York: Sotheby’s, November 4, 2011), lot 91.
Exhibition HistoryZürich, Kunsthaus, 1934, no. 78.

Paris, Wildenstein, “Peintures françaises en Suisse,” 1938, no. 24.

New York, NY, Wildenstein & Co., “The Serene World of Corot,” 1942, no. 32.

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