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Old Man Seated on a Trunk
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
1826
Medium/Technique
Oil on paper, mounted on board
Dimensions
32.1 x 22.9 cm (12 5/8 x 9 in.)
Credit Line
The Henry C. and Martha B. Angell Collection
Accession Number19.79
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
From 1825 to 1828, Corot lived abroad in Italy, where he produced numerous figure studies. Working with local Italian models, Corot often posed his subjects in unadorned interiors, rendering their homely features and modest costumes with tenderness and candor.
InscriptionsLower right: COROT; Lower left: Janvier 1826
ProvenanceSold by the artist and, about 1872/1873, re-acquired for about 800 fr. [see note 1]; May 26-28, 1875, posthumous Corot sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 26, to Febvre (probably Alexis Joseph Febvre, Paris) for 750 fr. 1880, sold by Gustave Templelaere (dealer), Paris, to Henry Clay Angell (b. 1829 - d. 1911), Boston; 1911, by inheritance to his widow, Martha Bartlett Angell (b. 1833 - d. 1919), Boston; 1916, gift of Martha Bartlett Angell to the MFA; 1919, upon Mrs. Angell's death, accessioned fully by the MFA. (Accession Dates: October 19, 1916 and March 20, 1919)
NOTES:
[1] According to Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré (Paris, 1905), vol. 2, cat. no. 89. Robaut does not specify from whom Corot re-acquired the painting at this time.
NOTES:
[1] According to Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré (Paris, 1905), vol. 2, cat. no. 89. Robaut does not specify from whom Corot re-acquired the painting at this time.