Provenance

Adolph Edward Borie

American, 1809 - 1880

Explore selected works

Théodore Rousseau, Sunlight, c. 1848/1850, oil on wood, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.44

Sunlight

Théodore Rousseau · c. 1848/1850 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.44

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Landscape, c. 1870/1875, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.143.9

Landscape

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · c. 1870/1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.143.9

A nude, pale-skinned woman sits on a grassy bank and extends one leg into the water in this loosely painted, horizontal composition. Her small breasts are bare, and the arm we see has some muscular definition. At the center of the painting, the woman’s body is angled to our left, and she looks down in that direction. Her skin is pale on her torso and upper arms and legs and deepens to reddish brown on her face, hands, and lower legs. Her hands are planted by her hips, and her left knee is sharply bent to support her weight near the water’s edge. Her other leg reaches into the water up to the knee. Tall grasses around her are loosely painted as is a golden brown hill that nearly reaches the top edge of the panel. The silhouette of a cow is outlined against the sliver of pale blue sky in the uppermost sixth of the painting. The artist signed the lower right corner, “JF Millet.”
Jean-François Millet, The Bather, 1846/1848, oil on wood, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.9

The Bather

Jean-François Millet · 1846/1848 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1949.1.9

Bibliography

1880

  • Strahan, Edward, ed. Art Treasures of America. 3 vols. c. 1880:I:15+

  • The New York Times. 6 February 1880:2 [obituary]

1887

  • Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 5 vols. 1888:I:322