Young Girl with a Mandolin

19th century

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot French, 1796-1875

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About the Artwork

Title Young Girl with a Mandolin

Artwork Date 19th century

Artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Life Dates 1796-1875

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 22 × 15 inches (55.9 × 38.1 cm) Framed: 27 7/8 × 20 3/4 × 2 5/8 inches (70.8 × 52.7 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.165

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Signed Signed, lower right: COROT

Marks Marked, verso, stamp, visible before relining: Tableaux Modernes | G. Tempelaere | 25 rue Laffitte Marked, verso, stamp, visible before relining: Tableaus Aquarelles Dessins...A. Beugniet | 10 rue Laffitte Marked, verso, stamp, visible before relining: 2131 | 175 | 101 | 4993

Provenance

the artist, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot [1796-1875];
purchased from artist by (A. Beugniet).
Sabourdin collection.
(G. Tempelaere collection).
possibly 1903, Albert S. Henraux.
until 1938, Edouard Jonas (Paris, France);
by 1938, Robert H. Tannahill (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Robaut, A. L'Oeuvre de Corot, vol. 3. Paris, 1905, p. 292, no. 2131, (repr.).

Camille Corot 1796-1875. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus. Zürich, August 16-October 7, 1934, p. 44, cat. 101 [ca. 1865, lent by Albert S. Henraux, Paris].

Corot. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1936, p. 48, no. 96 [ca. 1870-1872, let by Albert S. Henraux].

Exposition Corot. Exh. cat., Musée de Lyon. Lyon, May 24-June 26, 1936, p. 45, cat. 97 [ca. 1870-1871, let by Albert S. Henraux].

Masterpieces by Nineteenth-Century French Artists. Exh.(?) cat., Bignou Gallery. New York, 1938, no. 6.

French Painters of the Romantic Period. Exh.(?) cat., Bignou Gallery. New York, 1940, no. 4.

Alazard, J. Corot. Milan, 1952, no. 118, [dates ptg. 1870/1872].

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1970, pp. 27, 39 (ill.).

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki. Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ibaraki, 1989/1990, pp. 85, 218, cat. 53, (repr.) [dates ptg. 1870/72].

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, and Yawatahama Citizen Gallery. 2001, pp. 31, 46, no. 1, (color repr.) p. 47 [in Japanese, entry by I. Lisikewycz on file].

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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Young Girl with a Mandolin, 19th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.165.