Object details
Accession number
P3e3
Primary Creator
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(Paris, 1796 - 1875, Paris)
Full title
Noonday
Creation Date
1850-1875
Provenance
On the art market in Paris before 1880.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837-1898), from the gallery Doll & Richards, Boston for $1,500 on 15 April 1880.
Marks
Inscribed (lower right): COROT
Stamped (canvas, verso): Goupil & Co. / Diot
Stamped (on the stretcher): Goupil & Co. / Diot
Dimensions
40.9 x 54 cm (16 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
"Contributions to the Loan Exhibition for the Year 1880." Museum of Fine Arts, Fifth Annual Report (Boston, 1881), p. 23.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1.
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), p. 8.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 54.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 102-03, ill. (as painted at Ville d'Avray or Fontainebleau)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 11 (15 Nov. 1964), p. 2. (as perhaps painted at Ville d'Avray or Fontainebleau)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 59-60, ill. (as of Corot's later period)
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