Wounded Eurydice

1868/70

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875

On View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 224

Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Title: Wounded Eurydice
Origin: France
Date: 1868–1870
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.9 × 41.3 cm (22 × 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1042

“Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
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Peter L. Schmunk, “Music and the Art of Corot,” Southeastern College Art Conference Review 13, 4 (1999), p. 361, n. 32.
M. Therese Southgate, “About the Cover: Wounded Eurydice,” Journal of the American Medical Association 283, 22 (2000), p. 2899, cover ill.
Janis P. Stout, “‘The Nude Had Descended the Staircase’: Katherine Anne Porter Looks at Willa Cather Looking at Modern Art,” in Sarah Cheney Watson and Ann Moseley, eds., Willa Cather and Aestheticism: From Romanticism to Modernism (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), p. 160.

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Rétrospective de tableaux et dessins des maîtres modernes, 1878, no. 59.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 235.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 172.
Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1796–1875: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Graphic Works, October 6–November 13, 1960, no. 117.
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Insho-ha ten (The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago), October 18–December 17, 1985, no. 8; Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.

Probably Alfred Sensier (died 1877), Paris [according to Robaut 1905]. Charles (?) Edwards, Paris, by 1878 [lent to Paris 1878]; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 24, 1881, lot 8, as Eurydice for 6,510 francs to Durand-Ruel, possibly on behalf of Tavernier [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Tavernier Collection, Paris [according to Robaut 1905, who states that it was acquired at the Edwards sale]. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

Robaut no. 2001

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