Keywords: Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot c1860-65.jpg Artwork Creator Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Painting of Forest of Fontainebleau circa 1860 1865 Oil on canvas cm 46 59 Institution National Gallery of Art object history From http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f object 46585 detail prov National Gallery of Art <br> Given by the artist to Mme Camille Cornelie Isbert 1825-1911 Paris 1 Paul Tesse Paris by 1881 2 Alfred Robaut 1830-1909 Paris before 1905 3 sale Hôtel Drouot Paris 12 June 1930 no 28 ; purchased by Etienne Bignou Paris for Chester Dale 1883-1962 New York;4 bequest 1963 to NGA 1 According to Alfred Robaut L'oeuvre de Corot Paris 1905 III 26 no 1313 the NGA painting was offered for sale by Corot to Mme Isbert a miniaturist 2 According to Robaut 1905 see no 1 and Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records the painting was lent by Tesse to an exhibition in Lille 1881 3 The painting was not however in the sale of the Robaut collection Paris Hôtel Drouot 28 November 1919 which included another considerably smaller 23 x 31 5 cm sketch no 6 Dans la forêt de Fontainebleau 4 According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records the painting was acquired at the 12 June 1930 sale at Hôtel Drouot credit line Langswitch Barbizoner Schule Barbizon School National Gallery of Art PD-old-100 http //www nga gov/collection/sfp/flash/image_movs/barbizon/1963_10_110-zoom htm DEFAULTSORT Corot Forest of Fontainebleau 1860 National Gallery of Art Landscape paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French paintings in the National Gallery of Art Paintings of forêt de Fontainebleau Barbizon School 1860s landscape paintings 1860s paintings from France |