Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Two Studies of Young Boys
1799-1874
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Two Studies of Young Boys
1799-1874
Physical Qualities
Graphite, Sheet: 200 × 253 mm. (7 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number
1967.18
Studies of two boys. In the upper left, the boy sits upright looking out at spectator with hands in lap. He is dressed in a long gown with a wide collar and wears a cap. The second figure reclines and appears to be sleeping. He wears a similar costume, but with pants, and no cap
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1967; Hans Calmann; Harry Sperling.
'Accessions of American and Canadian Museums', Art Quarterly (Spring 1967), p. 172.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, suppl. 1189 (Feb. 1968), p. 79.
'Accessions Report', The Baltimore Museum of Art News 30:1-2 (1968), p. 27. [reproduced].
Emmanuel Pernoud, "L'Enfant obscur / Peinture, educacation, naturalisme", Paris: Hazan, 2007, fig. 28, p. 86 and cover (left figure).
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 23, ill.
Inscribed: None.
Markings: Partial watermark at top right
