Camille Corot

French (1796-1875)

Washerwomen in a Willow Grove
1871
Oil on canvas
14 7/8 x 18 1/8 in. (37.8 x 46.1 cm) 
Signed lower left: Corot
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.526

Provenance

• Bollet;  
• Emile Dehau (until 1885; his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 21, 1885, no. 12, as Les prairies de Sainte-Catherine, à Arras);  
• [Augustin Etienne Louis?] Tabourier (in 1889);  
• Henri Heugel (until 1905; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 25, 1905, no. 3, as Paysage d'Artois, sold to Boussod?);  
• Count Cecil Charles Pecci-Blunt, Paris (on consignment to Seligmann in Nov. 1940);  
• [Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York; sold to Clark, Jan. 2, 1941, as Paysage d'Artois];  
• Robert Sterling Clark (1941-1955);  
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.