Keywords: Young Girl Reading by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot c1868.jpg Artwork Q18177991 creator Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Young Girl Reading ~ 1868 oil wood cm 32 5 41 3 institution National Gallery of Art accession number object history From http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f object 66407 detail prov National Gallery of Art <br> I de La Rochenoire by 1875 1 Alexandre Dumas 1824-1895; his sale Hôtel Drouot Paris 16 February 1882 no 13 as La Lecture figure Dumas sale Hôtel Drouot Paris 12-13 May 1892 no 22 2 Dumas sale Galerie Georges Petit Paris 2-3 March 1896 no 12 Gaillard collection by 1905 3 Ferdinand Blumenthal d 1914 Paris 4 Count Cecil Pecci-Blunt d 1965 Paris by 1936 until at least 1946 5 Wildenstein Co New York ; sold 27 January 1960 to Paul Mellon Upperville Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA 1 Lent by I de la Rochenoire to Exposition de l'oeuvre de Corot Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts Paris 1875 no 135 2 According to an annotated copy of sale catalogue in the M Knoedler library the painting was purchased by Durand-Ruel et Cie Paris If however this is true it is unclear how the painting came to be included in the Dumas estate sale in 1896 3 Alfred Robaut L'oeuvre de Corot Paris 1905 III 116 no 1570 listed the Gaillard collection in the provenance 4 According to Wildenstein and Co précis dated 27 January 1960 in NGA curatorial files 5 Lent by Pecci-Blunt to Exposition Corot Musée de l'Orangerie Paris 1936 no 92 and Exhibition of Paintings by Corot Philadelphia Museum of Art 1946 no 60 credit line bottom right COROT National Gallery of Art http //www nga gov/collection/sfp/flash/image_movs/realism/1985_64_9-zoom htm PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Corot 1868 Young Girl Reading Portrait paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1868 Young Girl Reading Paintings of interiors by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1868 Young Girl Reading 1868 paintings French paintings in the National Gallery of Art Females reading in Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot's paintings 1860s portrait paintings 1860s paintings from France Paintings of sitting women reading indoors Portraits with paintings |