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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Paris, 1796 - Ville d'Avray, 1875

Reminiscence of the Beach of Naples

Date	1870-72
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	175 x 84
Inscriptions	Signed lower left: COROT
Credit Line	Purchased
Standard ref.	Robaut 2428
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.1970-0003

For painters of the nineteenth century, Italy was a place of inspiration. Camille Corot visited there three times to sketch en plein air. Although in Naples only briefly, it seems he was greatly impressed since, in later years, he produced several landscapes conjuring up the southern city. This one shows off Corot’s late style in the subtle, silver-gray touches sprinkled over the picture. Standing before this large-scale, characteristically tall canvas, we can almost feel the sea breeze blowing up through the trees. (Source: Gallery label, October 2016)

Provenance

Auc. Beauvais, Paris, c. 1876-78; Auc. Santenat, 1. 6. 1883; Auc. J. Fau, 4. 3. 1884; Auc. Lévy-Crémieu, 15. 5. 1886; Count Pecci Blunt (F. Blumenthal); Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York; Galerie Nathan, Zürich

Exhibition History

1941: From Ingres to Picasso, Person Hall Art Gallery, Chapel Hill (North Carolina), 0 May 1941 - 0 June 1941, cat. no. 2
1946: Corot, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 0 May 1946 - 0 May 1946, cat. no. 78
1947: Paintings by Corot, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, 0 March 1947 - 0 March 1947, cat. no. 10
1951: Major French paintings, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, 0 November 1951 - 0 November 1951, cat. no. 1
1956: Paintings by J. B. C. Corot, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, 0 November 1956 - 0 November 1956, cat. no. 31
1960: Corot, paintings and graphic works, The Art Institute of Chicago, 0 November 1960 - 0 December 1960
1975: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, 1 November 1975 - 30 November 1975, cat. no. 13
1976: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, 9 October 1976 - 7 November 1976, cat. no. 6
1978: European Landscape Painting, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 September 1978 - 26 October 1978, cat. no. 67, repr.
1978: European Landscape Painting, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 3 November 1978 - 15 January 1979, cat. no. 65
1984: Millet, Corot, Courbet, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, 1 September 1984 - 10 October 1984, cat. no. 55, repr.
1986: Permanent exhibition, Ohara Museum of Art, 13 October 1986 - 31 March 1987
1989: The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 1, col. repr.
1990: [Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, 10 April 1990 - 23 April 1990, cat. no. 1
1990: [Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Cultural Center of Kagawa Prefecture, Takamatsu, 28 April 1990 - 13 May 1990, cat. no. 1
1990: [Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Cultural Center of Toyota City, 19 May 1990 - 3 June 1990, cat. no. 1
1995: Découverte de Barbizon, Hyogo Prefectual Museum of Art, 11 November 1995 - 23 December 1995, cat. no. 18, col. repr.
1996: The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 2
1998: Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 September 1998 - 6 December 1998, cat. no. 124
2008: Corot: Souvenirs et variations, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 June 2008 - 31 August 2008, cat. no. 109
2008: Corot: Souvenirs et variations, Musée Municipal de Kobe, 13 September 2008 - 7 December 2008, cat. no. 109
2013: Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 66, col. repr.
2017: [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 49
2022: In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 13

Bibliography

1965: Robaut, Alfred; Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. L'œuvre de Corot, par Alfred Robaut, catalogue raisonné et illustré. tome 3, Paris, 1965, no. 2428, pl. 2428.
1971: Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 12, col. repr.
1972: Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 5 (1970), 1972, Sasaki, Hideya. Souvenir des rivages napolitains de Corot. pp. 3-7, col. repr. p. 2. (in Japanese); Catalogue of the New Acquisition. pp. 46-47, no. P-380. repr.
1972: Gazette des Beaux-Arts. ser. 6, tome 79, Feb. 1972, "Chronique des Arts", p. 155, no. 567, repr.
1972: Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922-72. Zürich, 1972, no. 40, col. repr.
1975: Les cent chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 29, col. repr.
1978: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 37, col. repr.
1979: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no.44, repr.
1984: Millet Corot Courbet (exh. cat.). Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art. [Chiba], Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, [1984], cat. no. 55, repr.
1995: Découverte de Barbizon (exh. cat.). Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; Kitakyushu municipal museum of art, eds. [Tokyo], Asahi Shimbun, 1995, pp. 31, 165, 198, 203, cat. no. 18, col. repr.
2006: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 60, col. repr.
2008: Corot: souvenirs et variations(exh.cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, eds. Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2008, cat. no. 109, col. repr.
2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 60, col. repr.
2013: Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 76, col. repr.
2013: MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 66, col. repr.
2017: Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 49, 140, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
2022: In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 76, 255, cat. no. 13, col. repr.

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