Souvenir of the Fortifications of Arras
Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), c. 1865-1870
oil on panel, 83 cm x 36 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0060
- Dimensions
- 83 cm x 36 cm, 111 cm x 63.5 cm, 9.5 cm
- Provenance
- Auction at Hôtel Drouot , Paris (Tableaux, Études, Esquisses, Dessins et Eaux-Fortes par Corot (…) vente par suite du décés de Corot), lot 438 (Paysage composé. Souvenir des fortifications d’Arras), purchased by Houssaye for FRF 300, 26 May-9 June 1875; purchased by Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris for FRF 1417,50, 8 May 1890; sold by Boussod, Valadon & Cie, The Hague (no. 20701, Étude coteau boisé) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 1200, 9 July 1890; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Camille Corot
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 130
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 98-99