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The Piazzetta, Venice
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
1828
Medium/Technique
Oil on paper, mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
15.9 x 25.1 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Frederick Frothingham
Accession Number94.318
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Corot stopped in Venice on a return journey from Rome during the summer of 1828. The column of Saint Mark, crowned with a winged lion at left, and the column of Saint Theodore, at right, punctuate the open square, their early morning shadows stretching across the pavement. This extraordinarily free, spontaneous sketch is typical of Corot’s studies from his first Italian sojourn.
InscriptionsStamped, lower left: VENTE / COROT
ProvenanceMay 26-28, 1875, posthumous Corot sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 47, to Frederick Frothingham (b. 1825 - d. 1891), Milton, MA, for 320 fr. [see note 1]; 1894, bequest of Frederick Frothingham to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 16, 1894)
NOTES:
[1] The buyer's name is erroneously annotated in a copy of the auction catalogue as Ischingham.
NOTES:
[1] The buyer's name is erroneously annotated in a copy of the auction catalogue as Ischingham.