Currently not on view
Daubigny working on his "Botin" near Auvers-sur-Oise,
1860
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1796–1875; born Paris, France; died Paris
1997-492
This painting is both a lyrical example of Corot’s late landscape style and a portrait of his younger colleague and friend Charles-François Daubigny. It is inscribed "Auvers, 1860, juin," the year Daubigny moved to that small town on the Oise River, northwest of Paris; the Oise is a tributary of the Seine, which allowed the painter access by water to a large area, including Normandy. The unseen artist paints in the cabin of le botin (the little boat), his floating studio. His son Karl watches, palette in hand, while another son, Bernard, rows. The painting was traded in an exchange of portraits between Corot and Daubigny, a token of their enduring friendship.
Information
Title
Daubigny working on his "Botin" near Auvers-sur-Oise
Dates
1860
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24.3 x 34 cm. (9 9/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
frame: 41 × 50 × 8.3 cm (16 1/8 × 19 11/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Harry A. Brooks, Class of 1935, and Mrs. Brooks
Object Number
1997-492
Place Made
Europe, France
Place Depicted
Europe, France, Auvers-sur-Oise
Signatures
Signed, bottom right: COROT
Inscription
Inscribed and dated, bottom left: AUVERS 1860 juin
Culture
Type
Subject
The widow of the artist (until 1898; sold to Arnold, Tripp, et Companie, May 11, 1898); Arnold, Tripp, et. Cie. (1989; sold to Harkness); Charles William Harkness, New York (1860-1916); Harry Brooks (until 1997; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum).
- Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, (Paris: H. Floury, 1905)., Vol. 3: p. 212, no. 1880
- Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell, Town and country: in pursuit of life's pleasures, (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1996).
- Jill Guthrie, ed., In celebration: works of art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1997)., cat. no. 65
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 187
- Reflections of the passion: selected works from the Princeton University Art Museum: March 9-June 9, 2002, (New York: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002)., cat. no. 6
- Earth's beauty revealed: the nineteenth-century European landscape, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002)., cat. no. 12 (illus.); fig. 1
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 263 (illus.)
