Title
Le vieux pont
19th century
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- The old bridge
- Alternative title
- Le petit pont
- Date
- 19th century
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 38.1 cm stretcher; 34.7 x 49.1 x xxx cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1926
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 1141
- Copyright
- Artist information
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attrib. Camille Jean Baptise Corot
Works in the collection
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About
Former attribution: Jean B. Camille Corot (1796-1875)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Unknown, Galerie Georges Petit, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 27 May 1920–27 May 1920
Summer exhibition of French Pictures (1926), Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London, Summer 1926–Summer 1926
French art from Australian collections, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Jun 1959–Jul 1959
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Galerie Georges Petit, (Galerie Georges Petit sale), Paris, 1920, np, no 16, illus np. as 'Le petit pont'.
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Queensland Art Gallery, French art from Australian collections, Brisbane, 1959, np, no 20.
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Peter Raissis, The Sydney Modern Project. Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Past and present: the place of historical European art in Sydney', Sydney, 2022, pp 126–39: p 134.
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Provenance
Paul Gerson, Paris/France, Purchased by Arthur Tooth & Sons from Paul Gerson. Half share sold to Cremetti, 26 April 1926.
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, 07 Apr 1926-08 Jul 1926, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Arthur Tooth & Sons 1926. Purchased from the 'Summer exhibition of French Pictures' July 1926. Tooth stock no. 8097.