Young Woman in a Pink Skirt

c. 1845–50

The identity of the figure in this painting is unknown. Her facial expression is difficult to read, but her heavily-lidded eyes and sloping shoulders suggest weariness with the world. Like several other pictures Corot painted around the time, this one may have been intended as an image of meditation or melancholy rather than a portrait of a particular person.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	18 13/16 x 15 1/2 in. (47.8 x 39.3 cm) Frame: 28 x 24 3/4 x 3 in. (71.1 x 62.9 x 7.6 cm)
Object Number	1955.541
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Young Woman in a Pink Skirt, c. 1845–50, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.541

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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Réunion des Musées Nationaux.. Corot: 1796-1875. Feb. 27-May 27, 1996; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 21-Sept. 22, 1996; Metropolitan Museum, New York, Oct. 29, 1996-Jan. 19, 1997 (Cat. by Gary Tinterow and Vincent Pomarede).. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.. 1996.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Gérard de Wallens.. Corot.. Paris: Editions du Chêne.. 1996.. Robaut, Alfred. L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré. Paris: Leonce Laget, 1905. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. Castro, Adriana Pontón. Gitana con pandereta: La Bohémienne au tambour de basque de Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Colombia: Banco de la República and Museo Botero, 2012. Melikian, Souren. "A Unique and Unforgettable Collection." International Herald Tribune, 16–17 September 2000.

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Provenance

The artist (until 1872, donated to sale, Drouot, Paris, 5 Feb. 1872, no. 25, as Jeune femme);¹ Jules Paton (by 1880–83, his sale, 24 Apr. 1883, no. 50, as La Meditation); [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 4 Dec. 1919]; Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. This sale took place in order to raise funds for the care of the painter Auguste Anastasi, who went blind in 1870.