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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.786
People
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French (Paris 1796 - 1875 Ville d'Avray)
Title
Forest of Coubron
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1872
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297980

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal with extensive stumping and some erasures on white modern laid paper
Dimensions
43.2 × 29.8 cm (17 × 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: crest with fleur-de-lis surmounted by a crown with the monogram GR.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.786
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 162, repr.
  • Ira Moskowitz and Maurice Sérullaz, Drawings of the Masters: French Impressionists, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1962), repr. p. 19
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 753, n.p., repr.
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 158-159, no. 106, repr. p. 159
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 65, repr.
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 37 under "Stump"

Verification Level

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