Moonlight
Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), c. 1855
oil on canvas, 28 cm x 36 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0066
- Dimensions
- 28 cm x 36 cm, 49 cm x 58 cm, 9.5 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Durand-Ruel at Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux et Dessins provenant en partie de la collection de feu C. Dutilleux), lot 25 (Clair de lune), purchased by Alfred Robaut for FRF 650, 26 March 1874; sold by Arnold & Tripp, Paris, to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague, between September 1881 and 14 May 1882; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Camille Corot
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Assen, Drents Museum, Op reis met Vincent. Van Gogh in Drenthe, 11 September 2023-7 January 2024
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh en de kleuren van de nacht, 13 February-7 June 2009
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 134-135
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 98
Veldink, Suzanne, 'Be-marised or bemused!' R.T. Hamilton Bruce and the international exhibition of 1886, p. 53
Rens, Annemiek, Goslinga, Mark, Zijverden, Jan van, Op reis met Vincent : Van Gogh in Drenthe, Zwolle, 2023, p. 62
Rens, Annemiek, Goslinga, Mark, Zijverden, Jan van, Travelling with Vincent : Van Gogh in Drenthe, Zwolle, 2023, p. 62