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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.246
People
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French (Paris 1796 - 1875 Ville d'Avray)
Title
A Woman Knitting
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1830
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296113

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on tan wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 28.2 x 21 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Numbered in graphite along right edge: 1/2/3; above the knitting: 4; verso, graphite: 31 x 39 1/2 / 1 br ... t.. No 57 / Centre(?) No 3641 / 5 et 6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.246
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 651, fig. 329
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 3
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 61, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947

Verification Level

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