Les Bords d'un Canal aux Environs de Rotterdam (Primary Title)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French, 1796 - 1875 (Artist)
Gift of Count Cecil Charles Pecci-Blunt
The Rise of Landscape Painting in France: Corot to Monet, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, January 27 - April 29, 1991; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, November 3, 1991 - January 5, 1992; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, July 30 - September 9, 1991; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, January 28 - March 29, 1992
Spotlight Loan, Piedmont Fine Arts Center, Martinsville, VA, March 2 - May 2, 1989
Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, May 23 - July 9, 1978
Roanoke Fine Arts Center Exhibitions, Roanoke, VA, February 11 - March 12, 1978
Corot, Wildensetein, New York, October 30 - December 6, 1969
Corot, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1946
Spotlight Loan, Piedmont Fine Arts Center, Martinsville, VA, March 2 - May 2, 1989
Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, May 23 - July 9, 1978
Roanoke Fine Arts Center Exhibitions, Roanoke, VA, February 11 - March 12, 1978
Corot, Wildensetein, New York, October 30 - December 6, 1969
Corot, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1946
Chamouillet Collection. [1] Collection of Ferdinand Blumenthal. [2] Collection of Count Cecil Charles Pecci-Blunt [d. 1965]; Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in December of 1959.
[1] Possibly Joseph Chamouillet, Corot's nephew. See Gary Tinterow, Corot (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996), 401.
[2] Probably Ferdinand Blumenthal [1847-1914], the German leather merchant who incorporated F. Blumenthal & Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. After retiring, Blumenthal relocated to Paris, where he began collecting art. His collection included a number of paintings by Corot. See biographical information compiled by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Possibly Joseph Chamouillet, Corot's nephew. See Gary Tinterow, Corot (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996), 401.
[2] Probably Ferdinand Blumenthal [1847-1914], the German leather merchant who incorporated F. Blumenthal & Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. After retiring, Blumenthal relocated to Paris, where he began collecting art. His collection included a number of paintings by Corot. See biographical information compiled by the National Gallery of Art.
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