Bathing Nymphs and Child

Provenance

Gustave Claudon (possibly lent to Paris 1875); sold in equal shares to Goupil & Cie, Paris and Knoedler & Co., Paris, for 17,000 francs, July 3, 1899 [according to Goupil stockbook no. 26031, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; sold to Alexander Young, London, for 225,000 francs, July 31, 1899 [according to the Goupil stockbook cited above]; sold by Young to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, July 24, 1906 [according to a letter from Richard Kingzett, Agnews, to Martha Howard, Art Institute, dated July 20, 1990, in curatorial file]; sold in equal shares to Scott and Fowles, New York, and Knoedler & Co., New York, for £13,000, June 14, 1907 [according Knoedler stockbook no. 11481, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and the letter cited above]; sold to Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago, for $7,000, April 9, 1909 [according to the Knoedler stockbook cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1920 [see Bulletin of the Art Institute 1920]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Bathing Nymphs and Child

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

1855–60

Accession Number

4760

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

82.6 × 100.3 cm (32 1/2 × 39 1/2 in.); Framed: 122 × 139.7 × 14 cm (48 × 55 × 5 1/2 in.)

Classification

oil on canvas

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection