Meadow with Willows, Monthléry

1860s

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	13 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. (35.3 x 22.3 cm) Frame: 2 x 21 1/4 x 16 3/16 in. (5.1 x 54 x 41.1 cm)
Object Number	1955.689
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Meadow with Willows, Monthléry, 1860s, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.689

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Robaut, Alfred. L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré. Paris: Leonce Laget, 1905. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

The artist, given to Vivier;¹ Philippe Gille (in 1889, possibly until d. 1901); [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 9 Dec. 1940]; Robert Sterling Clark (1940–55);² Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Alfred Robaut (L'oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonné et illustré, 1905, vol. 3, pp. 22–23, no. 1300), gives the name of the first owner in the provenance only as “Vivier” and recorded this work in the collection of a Philippe Gille in 1889. It is possible that Robaut’s “Vivier” refers to Eugène Vivier. See commentary in Sarah Lees, Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (2012, pp. 201–2, cat. 87), for further information. 2. The invoice from Knoedler of 1940 has a notation that this painting was returned and credited to Clark at the initial purchase price. Clark must, however, have bought the painting back again at some unspecified date.