Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer CollectionCC0 (public domain) · 5,197 × 7,384 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF
1870s · Art Institute of Chicago
Interrupted Reading
Jean-Baptiste Camille CorotWikidata
painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- Date
- 1870s (known to the decade)WikidataArt Institute of Chicago: c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, mounted on boardArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.5 × 65.1 cmArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: 92.5 × 65.1 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
- Gallery
- Gallery 224Art Institute of Chicago
- Materials
- oil paint, canvasWikidata
- Inventory no.
- 1922.410Wikidata
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer CollectionArt Institute of Chicago
- Exhibitions
- Corot 1796-1875
- Corot. The Painter and his Models
Provenance
Where it has been
- 1875 –Émile Charles Julien de La Rochenoirehigh confidenceWikidata · owned by
- ? – May 13, 1882Alexandre Dumas filshigh confidenceWikidata · owned by
- May 13, 1882 – May 17, 1892Paul Durand-Ruelhigh confidenceWikidata · owned by
- May 17, 1892 –Potter Palmerhigh confidenceWikidata · owned by
- 1922 –Art Institute of Chicagohigh confidenceWikidata · collection
Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago
Paris, L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’Oeuvre de Corot, 1875, cat. 93.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Museum, Exhibition of French Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March 6-April 6, 1929, cat. 12.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot-Daumier: Eight Loan Exhibition, October 16-November 13, 1930, cat. 29 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 231 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 164.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Figure and Landscape Paintings by J. B. C. Corot, November 12-December 1, 1934, cat. 20 (ill.).
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Corot, 1936, cat. 82 (ill.).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corot, 1796-1875, 1946, cat. 49 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1796-1875: An Exhibition of his Paintings and Graphic Work, October 6-November 13, 1960, cat. 99 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings: Masterpieces: Memorial Exhibition for Adele Rosenwald Levy, April 6-May 7, 1961, cat. 32 (ill.).
Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections: A Sections of Paintings and Drawings lent by the Family, by the Estate of Pauline K. Palmer and by the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, February 23-March 24, 1963, cat. 7 (ill.).
Edinburgh Festival Society, Corot: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, August 14-September 12, 1965, cat. 81 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc: Romantic and Realists, April 7-May 7, 1966, cat. 15 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc: Corot, October 30-December 6, 1969, cat. 63 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19-August 9, 1976, extended to August 15, no cat.
Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 2; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Corot 1796-1875, February 27 – May 27, 1996, cat. 144; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 21- September 22, 1996; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 22, 1996 – January 19, 1997.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Corot: Naturaleza, Emocion, Recuerdo, June 7–September 11, 2005, cat. 66.
Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet, Corot: the Painter and his Models, Feb. 8-July 8, 2018, cat. 41(ill).
Identifiers & sources+
- Art Institute of Chicago81512
- Wikimedia CommonsJean Baptiste Camille Corot - Interrupted Reading - 1922.410 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg
- inventory number1922.410
- WikidataQ18177384
- Fame rank#27664 (0 Wikipedia articles)

