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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 9, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 77 | $****** - ****** | Le Sommeil De Diane |
paintings
192.4 x 129.5 cm (75.75 x 50.98 in)
oil on canvas
signed COROT and dated 1868 (lower left)
Prince Paul Demidoff (commissioned for his dining room in 1865, and sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente P. Demidoff, February 3, 1868, lot 12)
Durand-Ruel and Brame, Paris (acquired from the above sale)
M. Mosler
Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above in January 1872)
Fremyn collection, Paris (and sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente M. Liebig et M. Fremyn, April 8, 1875, lot 10)
Auguste Breysse, Paris (as of 1875)
Daniel Cottier, Cottier and Co., London (before 1877)
James S. Inglis, Cottier and Co., New York (1893-1908)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acquired from the above, and sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 28, 1981, lot 65)
Private collection (acquired from the above sale)
Vienna, Welt-Ausstellung, June 1873, no. 154; Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’oeuvre de Corot, May 1875, no. 51 (as Le Sommeil de Vénus); New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Landscape Paintings, May 14 – September 30, 1934, no. 37; Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Corot, 1936, no. 85; Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Exposition Corot, May 24 – June 28, 1936, no. 87
Henri Dumesnil, Corot, souvenirs intimes, Paris, 1875, p. 68; Alfred Robaut, “Corot, peintures décoratives,” L’Art, XXXI, 1882, pp. 46-7; John W. Mollett, The Painters of Barbizon: Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, London, 1890, p. 108; David C. Thomson, The Barbizon School: Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, Millet, Daubigny, Etc., London, 1891, p. 44, 141; Georges Lanoë and Tristan Brice, Histoire de l’école française de paysage (depuis le Poussin jusqu’à Millet), Paris, 1901, p. 258; Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905, vol. I, pp. 224-5; vol. III, p. 142, no. 1633; also cited under p. 140, no. 1631; vol. IV, cited under p. 77, no. 2979; illustrated vol. III, p. 141, 143; Walther Gensel, Corot und Troyon, 1906, p. 34, 37, illustrated fig. 25; August F. Jaccaci, “The Sleep of Diana by Corot,” Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. IV, no. 2, February, 1909, p. 17, 27, illustrated; August F. Jaccaci, “Figure Pieces of Corot in America: I,” Art in America, vol. I, 1913, p. 88; Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Corot, raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1924, vol. II, pp. 17-8, illustrated fig. 196; Bryson Burroughs, “A painting by Corot Restored,” Metropolitan Museum Studies, 1929, vol. II, pp. 60-4; Julius Meier-Graefe, Corot, Berlin, 1930, p. 66; Stanislas Giraud, Gustave Ricard, sa vie et son oeuvre (1823-1873), Paris, 1932, p. 229, 239; Paul Durand-Ruel, “Mémoires,” in L. Venturi, Les Archives de l’Impressionisme, Paris, 1939, vol. II, p. 167; Germain Bazin, Corot, Paris, 1942, p. 106 [2 nd ed., 1951, p. 112; 3 rd ed., 1973, p. 270]; Daniel Baud-Bovy, Corot, Geneva, 1957, p. 136; Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Il Disegno francese, da Fouquet à Toulouse-Lautrec, 1959-1960, p. 95, cited under no. 136; Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger, French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, XIX Century, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1966, pp. 62-3, illustrated; Roseline Bacou, Maîtres du blanc et noir au XIXe siècle, de Prud’hon à Redon, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Cabinet des Dessins, 1968, pp. 15-6; Roseline Bacou, Maitres du blanc et noir au XIXe siècle: dessins du Musée du Louvre, Rennes, Musée, 1972, pp. 19-20; Pierre Miquel, Le Paysage Français au XIXe siècle, 1824-1874, L’École de la nature, Paris, 1975, vol. II, p. 47, 387; vol. III, pp. 476-7; Hommage à Corot: peintures et dessins des collections Françaises, exh. cat., Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1975, cited under no. 164, p. 161; James Thompson and Barbara Wright, La Vie et l’oeuvre d’Eugène Fromentin, Paris, 1987, pp. 228, 249; Michael Clarke, Corot and the Art of Landscape, New York, 1991, note 20, p. 88; Corot, exh. cat., City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1991, cited under no. 50, p. 67; Corot, exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1996, cited under no. 128, p. 368; cited under “1865”, p. 32; Corot, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996-1997, cited under no. 128, p. 306; cited under “1865”, p. 416; Vincent Pomarède, Corot, Paris, 1996, p. 241; “Am Römerholz,” The Secret Armoire: Corot’s Figure Paintings and the World of Reading, exh. cat., Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, 2011, cited in “Biography” by V. Pomarède, p. 172
