Painting of trees growing in varying stages throughout a brown hillscape.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Oil painting depicting trees of varying heights dotted atop a hillside. All of the trees feature a light or dark brown trunk with bright green leaves sprouting from the top. None of the trees bear fruit. The brown, grass-free nature of the ground could suggest it is pre- or post-growing season. Varying shades of warm-toned browns mark the hillside, occasionally interrupted by the cool, grey-brown shadows of the trees. The sky above and behind the trees is bright blue and largely cloudless.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.181
People
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French (Paris 1796 - 1875 Ville d'Avray)
Title
Apple Trees on a Hillside near Saint-Lô
Other Titles
Former Title: Pommiers sur le versant d'un coteau (environs de Saint-Lô)
Former Title: Apple Trees on a Hillside
Former Title: Pommiers sur le versant d’un coteau, près Saint-Lô
Former Title: Landscape of Trees in Sand
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1850
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370192

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
47.5 × 57 cm (18 11/16 × 22 7/16 in.)
framed: 64 × 74.1 cm (25 3/16 × 29 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: verso, top stretcher, red wax: VENTE / Corot
  • label: verso, top of frame, red border: [typewritten:] COROT EXHIBITION 1960 / [printed:] The Art Institute of Chicago / [typewritten:] 105.60 APPLE TREES ON A HILL- / SIDE, 1845-50 / Mr. & Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon / 27 Cragie Street, Cambridge, / Massachusetts / Cat. No. 62
  • label: verso, top left stretcher, ripped, black ink: [ripped] 11 [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, right side of frame, white chalk: [erased] NER [possibly WEITZNER]
  • label: verso, top of stretcher, two labels: [left label]: [printed:] S. E. No. [typewritten:] 2398.2 / [printed:] MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS / SPECIAL LOAN EXHIBITION / OF / [typewritten:] Peter Bent Brigham Tour [right label:] [printed:] Title [typewritten:] Landscape / [printed:] Artist [typewritten:] Corot / [printed:] Owner [typewritten:] Dr. & Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon / [printed:] Address [typewritten:] 27 Craigie Street / Cambridge, Mass.
  • inscription: verso, upper right of frame, blue crayon: 40 [encircled] IP
  • inscription: verso, top stretcher, red chalk: [illegible text] 74

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate, sold [through Vente Corot, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 26, 1865, lot 381]; to M. Martin. [Julius H. Weitzner, New York and London], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, October 1, 1954; The Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Trust, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.181
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des Tableaux, Études, esquisses, dessins et eaux-fortes par Corot…, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, May 26, 1875), p. 236, lot 381
  • Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre De Corot, Henri Floury (Paris, 1905), p. 200, no. 563
  • Corot, 1796-1875: An Exhibition of His Paintings and Graphic Works, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1960), p. 21, cat. no. 62
  • Arthur K. Solomon, Marjorie B. Cohn, Angela Creager, and Robert Köhler, Arthur Kaskel Solomon: Transcripts of Interviews Sponsored by the Oral History Committee, Harvard Medical School, 1993-1995 (Boston, 1997), pp. 412-415

Exhibition History

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