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Morning near Beauvais

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
about 1855–65

Medium/Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 35.9 x 41.6 cm (14 1/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number39.668
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsLower left: COROT
Provenance1886, John Saulnier, Bordeaux, France; June 5, 1886, posthumous Saulnier sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 21, sold for 5,400 fr. 1901, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris; June 11, 1901, sold by Boussod, Valadon et Cie. to M. Knoedler and Co., Paris, London and New York (stock no. 9546); July 31, 1903, sold by Knoedler to Felix Isman, Philadelphia; April 14, 1905, sold by Isman to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. 10699); December 31, 1906, sold by Knoedler to Robert J. Edwards (d. 1924), Boston; 1924 by inheritance to Hannah Marcy Edwards (d. 1929) and Grace Edwards (d. 1938), Boston; 1939, bequest of Hannah Marcy Edwards to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: October 11, 1939)

NOTES:
[1] As "Prairie boiséee au bord d'un ruisseau" and "The Brook in the Wood." Getty Provenance Index, Goupil Records, PI record number G-39768 (stock book 15, no. 27260, p. 62) and M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI record number K-12998 (stock book 5, no. 9546, p. 49 and no. 10699, p. 106). www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance.

[2] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.