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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.16
People
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French (Paris 1796 - 1875 Ville d'Avray)
Title
The Encounter in the Woods
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La rencontre au bosquet
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1871
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213023

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black lithographic crayon on transfer paper
Dimensions
27.8 x 21.9 cm (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
C.G. Boerner, LLC (NY), New York, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Fanny and Leo Koerner Charitable Trust and Ruth V.S. Lauer in memory of Julia Wheaton Saines
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Clare I. Rogan, Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), p. 73, no. 6, fig. 39
  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: The Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Collection in Context, exh. cat., The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, California, 2013), repr. as fig. 26, p. 39; pp. 41 and 103
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 59, repr. p. 59 as fig. 18

Exhibition History

  • Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001

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