About This Artwork

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875

Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts, 1871/72

Oil on canvas
60.8 x 73 cm (23 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.)
Inscribed at lower left: Corot
Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.407

Robaut no. 2210

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 230.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 159.

New York, Wildenstein and Co., The Serene World of Corot: An Exhibition in Aid of the Salvation Army War Fund, November 11-December 12, 1942, cat. 69 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1796-1875: An Exhibition of his Paintings and Graphic Work, October 6-November 13, 1960, cat. 128.

Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, April 20-May 29, 1994, cat. 4 (ill.); traveled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 1994 and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6-September 25, 1994.

Publication History

Alfred Robaut, L’oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré, précédé de l’histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres vol. 3 (Paris, 1905), no. 2210 (ill.) (reprinted Paris 1965).

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report For the Year 1921 (Chicago, 1921), ill.

The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, 1922), no. 808.

The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), no. 808.

“Corots in the Art Institute,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 18, 8 (1924), pp. 101-2.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 131, no. 808.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 147, no. 22.407.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 106.

John D. Morse, Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York, 1979), p. 62.

Ownership History

Arnold & Tripp, Paris, 1882 [according to Robaut 1905]. Georges Petit, Paris, 1883 [according to Robaut 1905]. Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1889 [according to Robaut 1905]. Mrs. Potter Palmer (died 1918), Chicago, 1892 [see Chicago 1933]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.