About This Artwork

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875

Monte Pincio, Rome, 1840/50

Oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 16 in. (27 x 40.6 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Corot
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1942.466

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Petit Palais, "Le Paysage Français de Poussin a Corot," May - June 1925, p. 109, cat. 724.

Paris, Musée l'Orangerie, "Corot," 1936, cat. 9, as Rome. La Trinité des Monts.

Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, "Small Paintings by Corot," November 6–December 4, 1943, cat. 2.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Corot: 1796 - 1875," 1946, cat. 3 (ill).

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, "J. B. C. Corot," January - February 1950, cat. 4.

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., "Loan Exhibition of Paintings by J. B. C. Corot (1796-1875), November 5–December 1, 1956, cat. 4 (ill.).

Washington D.C., The Phillips Gallery, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings by J. B. C. Corot (1796-1875), December 16, 1956–January 17, 1957, cat. 4 (ill.).

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, "L'Italia Vista dai Pittori Francesi del XVIII e XIX Secolo," February - March 1961, p. 31, cat. 83.

Gary, Indiana University Northwest, "First International Folk and Art Festival," August 28–September 1, 1969.

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Artist Looks at the Landscape," June 22–August 25, 1974, no cat. no.

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Corot," 28 February - 27 May 1996; Ottawa, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, 21 June - 22 September 1996; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22 October 1996 - 19 January 1997, cat. 14 (ill.).

Publication History

John Rewald, "Corot Sources: The Camera Tells," Art News 41 (15-30 November 1942), p. 13 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), p. 32.

"The Special Vision of Corot," Arts 31 (November 1956), pp. 28-29 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 33.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 85, 240 (ill.).

Madeline Hours, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (New York, 1972), p. 104 -105 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 68 (May-June 1974), p. 6 (ill.).

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 62.

Jean Selz, La Vie et L'Oeuvre de Camille Corot (Paris, 1988), p.146-147 (ill.).

Ownership History

C. Tempelaere, Paris [stamp on back of canvas]. Henry Marcel (died 1926), Paris, by 1925 [ lent to Paris 1925, no. 724]; by inheritance to his second wife, Mme. Henry Marcel (née Marguerite Meyer, died 1940), Paris, to at least 1936 [lent to Paris 1936, no. 9]. André Weil, The Matignon Art Galleries, New York by 1942; sold to the Art Institute, December 1942.