Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)1865
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
This scene is imbued with a sense of quiet and stillness, broken only by the lone female bather pulling herself out of the water by a branch. Although the setting is a real hillside lake he visited in northern Italy, Camille Corot painted the view from memory, having returned to Paris in 1843 from the last of three trips to the region. Thus, rather than presenting an accurate record of the location, the painting is a picturesque souvenir, with the topography transformed as much by the artist’s silvery-gray and deep-green palette as by his fond reminiscences.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 98.4 × 134.3 cm (38 3/4 × 52 7/8 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 8 exhibitions
Provenance
- M. L. by 1867.
- Albert Hecht (died 1889), Paris, by 1875.
- William Schaus, New York, by 1884; sold to Mary J. Morgan (died 1885); her estate sale, American Art Association, New York, March 3–5, 1886, lot 216, for $14,000 to Thomas Newcomb.
- Thomas Newcomb (died 1901), New York; his widow, Alice Newcomb, New York; her estate sale, The American Art Galleries, New York, January 24, 1912, as Lake Nemi for $85,000 to W. W. Seaman as agent, possibly on behalf of Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr..
- Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (died 1936), Chicago, by 1923; on intermittent loan to the Art Institute, from 1923; his estate; portion of the estate that passed to his son, Cyrus McCormick III (died 1970), Chicago, October 15, 1941; his second wife Florence Nicks Sittenham Davey McCormick (died 1979), New York; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1979.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Salon de 1865, 1865.
- Paris, Exposition Universelle de 1867, 1867.
- Paris, L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’oeuvre de Corot, 1875.
- New York, American Art Galleries, The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye, November 1889.
- Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Insho-ha ten (The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago), October 18–December 17, 1985; Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
- Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Lighting up the Landscape: French Impressionism and Its Origins, August 1–October 19, 1986.
- Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Corot 1796-1875, February 27 – May 27, 1996; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 21- September 22, 1996; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 22, 1996 – January 19, 1997.
