Monte Pincio, Rome

1840/50

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875

On View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 221

Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Title: Monte Pincio, Rome
Origin: France
Date: 1840–1850
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Corot
Dimensions: 10 5/8 × 16 in. (27 × 40.6 cm)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1942.466

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.).

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 1796-1875, February 27 – May 27, 1996, cat. 14; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 21- September 22, 1996; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 22, 1996 – January 19, 1997.

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.

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