Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris, France, 1796–1875, Paris, France). Young Women of Sparta (Jeunes filles de Sparte), 1868–1870. Oil on canvas, 16 3/4 x 29 7/16 in. (42.5 x 74.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 42.195 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 42.195_PS9.jpg)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris, France, 1796–1875, Paris, France). Young Women of Sparta (Jeunes filles de Sparte), 1868–1870. Oil on canvas, 16 3/4 x 29 7/16 in. (42.5 x 74.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 42.195 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 42.195_framed_PS1.jpg)
Young Women of Sparta (Jeunes filles de Sparte)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
European Art
Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times or distant places exemplifies Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s practice as a figure painter. This painting portrays the model Mlle Darmelas wearing the traditional attire of the Italian town of Albano and gazing pensively into space. In the other, a favorite model, Emma Dobigny, reclines in a theatrical “gypsy” costume, while a trio of maidens in the background dance or perhaps engage in a physical contest reflecting the athleticism for which ancient Sparta was renowned. For Corot such costumes were interchangeable referents for imagined worlds, as well as opportunities to explore color, pattern, and texture in delicate touches of paint.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1868–1870
DIMENSIONS
16 3/4 x 29 7/16 in. (42.5 x 74.8 cm)
frame: 26 × 39 × 4 3/8 in. ( 66 × 99.1 × 11.1 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower left: "COROT"
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
42.195
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer
PROVENANCE
Prior to 1876, provenance not yet documented; before 1876, acquired by Michel Lévy of Paris, France; by March 1876, inherited from Michel Lévy by Mrs. Michel Lévy of Paris; March 17, 1876, sold by Mrs. Michel Lévy; between 1876 and 1889, provenance not yet documented; by 1889, acquired by Paul Michel Lévy; October 16, 1889, purchased from Paul Michel Lévy at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 2, by Durand-Ruel, Paris; October 21, 1889, purchased from Durand-Ruel, no. 2536, by Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer; 1929, inherited from Louisine Havemeyer by Horace Havemeyer and Doris A. Dick Havemeyer; June 10, 1942, gift of Doris Havemeyer to the Brooklyn Museum.
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris, France, 1796–1875, Paris, France). Young Women of Sparta (Jeunes filles de Sparte), 1868–1870. Oil on canvas, 16 3/4 x 29 7/16 in. (42.5 x 74.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 42.195 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 42.195_PS9.jpg)
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overall, 42.195_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015
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