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Corot Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliographic references for recent research into seven paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Adams 1994
S. Adams, 'The Barbizon School and the Origins of Impressionism', London 1994

Alexandre, Keppel and Holme 1902–3
A. Alexandre, F. Keppel and C.J. Holme, ‘Corot and Millet’, 'The Studio', special number, winter, 1902–3

Anonymous 1896
'The Athenaeum', 15 February 1896

Anonymous 1908
‘The French School in the National Gallery’, 'Burlington Magazine', XIII, 1908, pp. 339–40

Arsenne 1833
L.-C. Arsenne,  'Manuel du Peintre et du Sculpteur', 2 vols, Paris 1833

Ashby 1935
T. Ashby, 'The Aqueducts of Ancient Rome', ed. I.A. Richmond, Oxford 1935

Baedeker 1914
K. Baedeker, 'Le Nord-Est de la France. De Paris aux Ardennes, aux Vosges et au Rhône', Leipzig 1914

Balleret 1997
J. L. Balleret, 'De Corot à Balthus. Un siècle de grands peintres dans le Nièvre et la Morvan', Paris 1997

Bazin 1942
G. Bazin, 'Corot', Paris 1942; 2nd edn 1951; 3rd edn 1973

Beauvais 1987
M.-J. Salmon, 'Vasques de Rome, Ombrages de Picardie', exh. cat., Musée départemental de l’Oise, Beauvais 1987

Belfast 1906
'First Exhibition of Modern Paintings', Municipal Gallery, Belfast, April to May 1906

Berlin 1990
P.K. Schuster, 'Carl Blechen: Zwischen Romantik und Realismus', exh. cat., Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1990

Bernheim de Villiers 1930
C. Bernheim de Villiers, 'Corot, peintre de figures', Paris 1930

Berte-Langereau 1993
P. Berte-Langereau, ‘Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot dans le Morvan’, 'Camosine. Les Annuales du Nivernais', no. 74, Nevers 1993, pp.3–33

Bodkin 1932
T. Bodkin, 'Sir Hugh Lane and his Pictures', Dublin 1932, reprinted 1934 and 1956

Bristol/Newcastle/London 2002
'Light', exh. cat., National Gallery Touring Exhibition, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; National Gallery, London, 2002

Bristol/Newcastle/London 2003
'Paradise', exh. cat., National Gallery Touring Exhibition, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; National Gallery, London, 2003

Burmester and Denk 1999
A. Burmester and C. Denk, ‘Blau, Gelb, Grün und die Landschaftsmalerei von Barbizon’, 'Barbizon. Malerei der Natur – Natur der Malerei', Im Auftrag der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, des Doerner-Institutes und des Zentralinstitutes für Kunstgeschichte, München, eds A. Burmester, C. Heilmann and M.F.Zimmermann, Munich 1999, pp. 295–329

Cardiff 1960
'How Impressionism Began. An Exhibition showing the rise of the Impressionist Movement in France, with special reference to earlier painters whose work influenced the Impressionists', exh. cat., Arts Council/ National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1960

Cherpin 1953
J. Cherpin, 'Daumier et le théâtre', Paris 1953

Church 1901
A.H. Church, 'The Chemistry of Paints and Painting', London 1890, 3rd rev. edn 1901

Clark 1966
K. Clark, 'Landscape into Art', London 1966

Clarke 1991
M. Clarke, ‘Degas and Corot: The affinity between two artists’ artists’, 'Apollo', July 1991, pp. 15–20

Copenhagen 2004–5
K. Monrad, 'Turner and Romantic Nature', exh. cat., Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2004–5

Coppel 2004
S. Coppel, ‘Salting, George (1835–1909)’, 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography', Oxford 2004, vol. 48, pp. 768–70

Davies/Gould 1975
Martin Davies (revised by Cecil Gould), 'National Gallery Catalogues. French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc', London 1970

Dawson 2008
B. Dawson, ed., 'Hugh Lane: Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland', London 2008

Delteil 1906–30
L. Delteil, 'Le Peintre-graveur illustré', Paris 1906–30

Distel 1989
A. Distel, 'Impressionism. The First Collectors', New York 1989

Dublin 1899
'A Loan Collection of Modern Painting', Leinster Hall, Dublin, April 1899

Dublin 1904–5
'Catalogue of Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also Pictures lent by the executors of the late Mr. J. Staats Forbes and others', exh. cat., Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904; National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, 1905

Dublin 2008
'Hugh Lane 100 Years', Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, June to September 2008 (a portion extended until December 2008), Dublin 2008

Edinburgh 1986
M. Clarke, 'Lighting up the Landscape. French Impressionism and its Origins', exh. cat., National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh 1986

Edinburgh/London 1965
C. Gould, 'Corot. An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints', exh. cat., Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Edinburgh, National Gallery, London, 1965

Eitner 2000
L. Eitner, 'The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism', National Gallery of Art, Washington 2000

Emberton 1996
A. Emberton, ‘Keynes and the Degas Sale’, 'History Today', January 1996, pp. 22–8

Escholier 1943
R. Escholier, 'La Peinture Française. XIXe Siècle', Paris 1943

Fiedler and Bayard 1986
I. Fiedler and M.A. Bayard, ‘Cadmium Yellows, Oranges and Reds’, in R.L. Feller, ed., 'Artists’ Pigments. A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics', vol. 1,   Washington DC and Oxford 1986, pp. 68–9

Fitzhugh 1997
E.W. Fitzhugh, ed., 'Artists’ Pigments. A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics', Washington DC and Oxford 1997

Fouchet 1975
M.-P. Fouchet, 'Corot', Paris 1975

Galassi 1986
P. Galassi, 'Corot in Italy, 1825–8', unpublished PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1986

Galassi 1991
P. Galassi, 'Corot in Italy. Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition', New Haven and London 1991

Geiger 1973–5
M. Geiger, ‘Corot et la Bourgogne’, 'Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon', vol. 122, 1973–5, pp. 329–37

Gettens and Stout 1942
R.J. Gettens and G.L. Stout, 'Painting Materials. A Short Encyclopedia', New York 1942

Gombrich 1995
E.H. Gombrich, 'Shadows. The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art', published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery, London 1995

Griffiths 1996
A. Griffiths, ed., 'Landmarks in Print Collecting: Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum since 1753', exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and elsewhere, 1996, pp. 189–210

Halton 1906
E.G. Halton, ‘The Collection of Mr Alexander Young. I, The Corots’, 'The Studio', XXXIX, November 1906, pp. 3–22

Hamburg/Berlin/Aarau 2004–5
B. Hedinger, I. Richter-Musso and O. Westheider, ’Wolkenbilder. Die Entdeckung des Himmels', exh. cat., Bucerius Kunstforum und Jenisch Haus, Außenstelle des Altonaer Museums, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, Hamburg; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 2004–5

Harrison 1908
S.C. Harrison, 'Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. Illustrated Catalogue with Biographical and Critical Notes', Dublin 1908

Herring 2001
S. Herring, ‘The National Gallery and the collecting of Barbizon paintings in the early twentieth century’, 'Journal of the History of Collections', 13, no. 1, 2001, pp. 77–89


Hoff 1995
U. Hoff, 'European Paintings before 1800 in the National Gallery of Victoria', Melbourne 1995

Holmes 1936
C.J. Holmes, 'Self and Partners (Mostly Self)', London 1936

Horbez 2004
D. Horbez, 'Corot et les peintres de l’école d’Arras', Tournai 2004

Hours 1979/1984
M. Hours, 'Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot', Paris 1979 (1st edn), New York 1984

Jullien 1987
A. and R. Jullien, ‘Corot dans les castelli Romani’, 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', 129, 1987, pp. 109–30

Lafond 1918
P. Lafond, 'Degas', Paris 1918

Leeman and Pennock 1997
F. Leeman and H. Pennock, 'Museum Mesdag. Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings', Zwolle 1997

Leighton 1996
J. Leighton, ‘“Bienheureux les paysagistes!” Landschaftsmalerei unter freiem Himmel’, 'Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon. “Les amis de la nature”', exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich 1996, pp. 23–31

Leymarie 1979
J. Leymarie, 'Corot', Geneva 1979

Lille 1881
'L’Exposition universelle des Beaux-Arts', exh. cat., Lille 1881

London 1896
'Winter Exhibition', exh. cat., Royal Academy, London 1896

London 1917
'Loan Exhibition of the Sir Hugh Lane Collection', National Gallery, London, January 1917

London 1936
'La Flèche D'Or, Important Pictures from French Collections', exh. cat., Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London 1936

London 1986
'The Artist's Eye: Patrick Caulfield', exh. cat., National Gallery, London 1986

London 1990–1
D. Bomford, J. Kirby, J. Leighton and A. Roy, 'Art in the Making. Impressionism', exh. cat., National Gallery, London 1990–1

London 1996
A. Dumas, 'Degas as a Collector', exh. cat., National Gallery, London 1996

London 1999
C. Riopelle, X. Bray and C. Gere, 'A Brush with Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches', exh. cat., National Gallery, London 1999

London 2007–8
'The Landscape Oil Sketch', National Gallery, London 2007–8

Lugt 1938–1987
F. Lugt, 'Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques', The Hague 1938–87

MacGregor 1961
A.A. MacGregor, 'Percyval Tudor-Hart 1873–1954. Portrait of an Artist', London 1961

Madrid 2001
R. Pickvance, 'Corot. El Parque de los Leones en Port Marly, 1872', exh. cat., Madrid 2001

Manchester/Norwich 1991
J. Leighton and M. Clarke, 'Corot', National Touring Exhibition from the South Bank Centre, Manchester City Art Gallery, Castle Museum, Norwich, 1991

Martin Wood 1917
T. Martin Wood, ‘Modern French Pictures at the National Gallery’, 'The Studio', November 1917, pp. 53–9

Melot 1978
M. Melot, 'L’Oeuvre gravé de Boudin, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, Jongkind, Millet, Théodore Rousseau', Paris 1978

Mérimée 1830
 J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 'De la peinture à huile,' Paris 1830

Michel 2005–6
N. Michel, ‘Corot à Ville-d’Avray’,  in V. Pomarède et al., 'Corot. Nature, Emotion, Souvenir', exh. cat., Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid; Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 2005–6, pp. 213–36, French translation, pp. 377–82, Italian edn, pp. 181–95

Mills and White 1981
J. Mills and R.White, ‘Analyses of Paint Media’, 'National Gallery Technical Bulletin', 5, 1981, pp. 66–7

Munich 1996
C. Heilmann, M. Clarke and J. Sillevis, 'Corot, Courbet und die Malen von Barbizon. ‘Les amis de la nature’', exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich 1996

Naples 2007–8
N. Spinosa et al., 'Omaggio a Capodimonte. Da Caravaggio a Picasso', exh. cat., Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples 2007–8

National Gallery 1991
'The National Gallery Report April 1990 to March 1991', London 1991

New York 1997–8
A. Dumas, G. Tinterow et al., 'The Private Collection of Edgar Degas', exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1997–8

Nouvel 1948
E. Nouvel, 'Le Collège Sainte-Barbe: la vie d’un collège parisien de Charles VII à nos jours', Paris 1948

Paris 1875
'Exposition de l’Oeuvre de Corot', exh. cat., Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1875

Paris 1930
'Corot, Paysages de France et Figures', exh. cat., Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris 1930

Paris 1951
'Le Divin Corot', exh. cat., Galerie Daber, Paris 1951

Paris 1962
G. Bazin, 'Figures de Corot', exh. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris 1962

Paris 1971
'Exposition Corot 1796–1875', exh. cat., Galerie Schmit, Paris 1971

Paris 1975
H. Toussaint, G. Monnier and M. Servot,  'Hommage à Corot', exh. cat., Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1975

Paris 1996
C. Bouret, 'Corot. Le génie du trait. Estampes et dessins’, exh. cat.,  Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 1996

Paris/Ottawa/New York 1996–7
V. Pomarède, M. Pantazzi and G. Tinterow, 'Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875)', exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996–7

Phillips 1917
Sir C. Phillips, ‘National Gallery II – Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures’, 'Daily Telegraph', 10 February 1917, p. 7

Pomarède 2009
V. Pomarède, ‘Corot à Reims’, in V. Pomarède, in collaboration with M. Pantazzi and A. Takahashi, 'De Corot à l’art moderne. Souvenirs et variations', exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims 2009, pp. 154–87

Portsmouth/Nottingham/Stoke-on-Trent/Barnard Castle/London 1980
'The National Gallery Lends: French 19th Century Paintings of Town and Country', Portsmouth City Museum; Nottingham University Art Gallery; Stoke City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; National Gallery, London, 1980

Preston 1983
H. Preston, ‘Cross-Currents in French Nineteenth-century Painting’, 'Apollo', XCIII, 262, December 1983, pp. 502–7

Quicherat 1860–4
J. Quicherat, 'Histoire de Sainte-Barbe: collège, communauté, institution', Paris 1860–4

Robaut 1905
A. Robaut,' L’Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré précédé de l’Histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres par Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, ornée de dessins et croquis originaux du maître',  4 vols, Paris, 1905

Roquebert 1998
A. Roquebert, ‘Quelques observations sur la technique de Corot’, in 'Corot, un artiste et son temps. Actes des colloques organisés au Musée du Louvre par le Service Culturel les 1er et 2 mars 1996 à Paris et par l’Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, le 9 mars 1996 à Rome', Paris and Rome 1998, pp. 73–97

Roquebert 2005–6
A. Roquebert,  ‘La technique de Corot’ in V. Pomarède et al.’, 'Corot. Nature, Emotion, Souvenir', exh. cat., Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 2005–6, pp. 57–71, French translation, pp. 343–7, Italian edn, pp. 59–71

Rousseau 1884
J. Rousseau, 'Camille Corot', Paris 1884

Roy 1999
A. Roy, ‘Barbizon Painters: Tradition and Innovation in Artists’ Materials’, 'Barbizon. Malerei der Natur – Natur der Malerei,' Im Auftrag der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, des Doerner-Institutes und des Zentralinstitutes für Kunstgeschichte, München, eds A. Burmester, C. Heilmann and M.F.Zimmermann, Munich 1999, pp. 330–42 

Saunders, Chahine and Cupitt 1996
D. Saunders, H. Chahine and J. Cupitt, ‘Long-term Colour Change Measurement: Some Results after Twenty Years’, 'National Gallery Technical Bulletin', 17, 1996, pp. 81–90

Scharf 1968
A. Scharf, 'Art and Photography', London 1968

Schoeller and Dieterle 1948
A. Schoeller and J. Dieterle, 'Corot. Premier Supplement à l’Oeuvre de Corot par A. Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton', Paris 1948

Selz 1988
J. Selz, 'La Vie et l’Oeuvre de Camille Corot', Paris 1988

Sutton 1989
D. Sutton, ‘The Degas Sales and England’, 'Burlington Magazine', April 1989, pp. 266–72

Tokyo 1996
A. Takahashi et al., 'The Birth of Impressionism', exh. cat., Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo 1996

Tokyo/Kobe/Reims 2008-9
A. Takahashi, V. Pomarède, M. Pantazzi et al., 'Corot. Souvenirs et variations', exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and Kobe City Museum, Kobe, 2008, and published as 'De Corot à l’art moderne. Souvenirs et variations', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, 2009

Vauquelin 1798
L.N. Vauquelin, ‘Second Memoir on the Metal Contained in the Red Lead of Siberia’, 'Philosophical Magazine', I, 1798, pp. 361–7

Vauquelin 1809
L.N. Vauquelin, ‘Mémoire sur la meilleure méthode pour décomposer le chromate de fer, obtenir l’oxydé de chrome, préparer l’acide chromique, et sur quelques combinaisons de ce dernier’, 'Annales de Chimie', 1st ser. 70, 1809

Venturi 1941
L. Venturi, 'Peintres Modernes: Goya, Constable, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Daumier, Courbet', Paris 1941

Ville-d’Avray 1987
G. Matheron, 'Corot à Ville-d’Avray', exh. cat., Musée d’Avray, Ville-d’Avray 1987

Washington/New York/St Louis 1996–7
P. Conisbee, S. Faunce, J. Strick and P. Galassi, 'In the Light of Italy. Corot and Early Open-Air Painting',  exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; St Louis Art Museum, 1996–7

Welch and Harrington 2004
C. Welch, ‘Forbes, James Staats (1823–1904)’, rev. R. Harrington, ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography', Oxford 2004, vol. 20, pp. 291–2

White, Pilc and Kirby 1998
R.White, J. Pilc and J. Kirby, ‘Analyses of Paint Media’, 'National Gallery Technical Bulletin’, 19, 1998, pp. 79–94

Woudhuysen-Keller 1999
R. Woudhuysen-Keller, ‘Observations Concerning Corot’s Late Painting Technique’,
'Barbizon. Malerei der Natur - Natur der Malerei', Im Auftrag der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, des Doerner-Institutes und des Zentralinstitutes für Kunstgeschichte, München, eds A. Burmester, C. Heilmann and M.F. Zimmermann, Munich 1999, pp. 192–200

Woudhuysen-Keller, Cuttle and Hurst 1993
R. Woudhuysen-Keller, J. Cuttle and Ch. Hurst, ‘Zwei Gemälde von Camille Corot. Gedanken zur Maltechnik und  zur Restaurierung’, 'Restauro', 1993, pp. 306–15

Zubans 1983
R. Zubans, 'The Barbizon Painters, National Gallery of Victoria' 1983

Archive Sources

'Alfred Robaut, Documents sur Corot', Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Estampes,  Yb3 949

A. Robaut, 'Collection Robaut. Notes, Croquis, Calques, Photographies, Estampes, 34 Cartons', Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris