- Title:
- A Peasant Woman
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- In this pensive study, a woman is dressed in traditional Italian costume. Her distinctive headdress is a tovaglia, a piece of folded linen or other cloth worn flat on the head and covering the neck. With increased Italian migration to France from the middle of the nineteenth century, the subject of women wearing picturesque dress became popular among French artists, Corot included.Although this painting entered the National Gallery's collection as a work by Corot himself, it is now thought to be by an imitator. The restrained colours and thin application of paint contrast with Corot’s juxtapositions of bright colour in his own late portrayals of women. This work probably dates from the early years of the twentieth century, a period when the appeal of Corot’s late silvery landscapes was on the wane, and the demand for his late figure paintings was on the rise.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Associated concept:
- Robaut, Alfred
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/376/566/166/mid_N-3239-00-000025.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 31.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 29.20
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- before 1913
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1913
- Date - latest:
- 1913
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1900-24
- Object production person:
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Person's birth date:
- 1796
- Person's death date:
- 1875
- Object production place:
- France
- Other number:
- NG3239
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GMW-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3239
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04OC-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33239
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- half length portraits
- Style:
- female portraits
- Style:
- Barbizon
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 219-21
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 58-9
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 144
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference details:
- 35
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane and his Pictures
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot Forgeries: Is the Artist Responsible?
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot: Tableaux Faux
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 155)
- Reference type:
- reference
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