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Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest

Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest

1842
(French, 1796–1875)
France, 19th century
oil on fabric
Unframed: 52.3 x 70.3 cm (20 9/16 x 27 11/16 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1962.35
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Claude Monet once said: "There is only one master here—Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing."

Description

Camille Corot painted this charming woodland scene during the summer of 1842 while visiting Lormes, a small village in the Morvan region of Burgundy. The area was known for its dense woodlands and picturesque falls. Corot included a seated goat shepherd leaning against a curving tree trunk, but instead of commanding the viewers attention, the human presence is overshadowed by the dynamic interlacing forms of the tree trunks and branches that stretch up and across the canvas.
  • Paris sale, Drouot salle 3, 29 March 1878 (lot 15), Paysanne près d'une source, dans la forêt de Fontainebleau, ff 1,300. Hugo Nathan, Frankfurt. Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1942. J. K. Thannhauser, New York, by 1960. Purchased by the cma in 1962.
  • Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 150-151, Vol. I, no. 56
  • Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais (organizer) (February 27-May 27, 1996); National Gallery of Canada (June 20-September 22, 1996); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 21, 1996-January 19, 1997).
    Paris, Grand Palais; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Corot 1796-1875 (1996-97), no. 79, 293 (repr.).
    Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).
    Manchester, N.H., Currier Gallery of Art; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art. The Rise of Landscape Painting in France-Corot to Monet (1991-92), 226, no. 18 (repr.), 121.
    Possibly Pau, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Exposition de la société des amis des arts de Pau (1872), 82, Une figure (handwritten: 500), according to Robaut.
    Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).
    Art Institute of Chicago. Corot 1796-1875 (1960), no. 56, lent by J. K. Thannhauser, New York.
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Corot and His Contemporaries (1959), 7.
    Art Gallery of Toronto. J. B. C. Corot 1796-1875 (1950), no. 11, Lormes, Goat Girl Beside a Stream, Lent by Wildenstein & Co.
    Philadelphia Museum of Art. Corot 1796-1875 (1946), no. 22 (repr.), lent by Wildenstein & Co.
    New York, Wildenstein. The Serene World of Corot (1942), no. 21 (repr.), lent by Wildenstein & Co.
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