Chalk Cliffs near Yport
Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), 1872
oil on canvas, 43 cm x 59.3 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
The French artist Camille Corot painted this coastal view on the beach at Yport in Normandy in July 1872. First he drew the most important contours on the canvas, and then painted the beach, cliffs, sea, and sky in one go. He only added the figures in the foreground later, back in his atelier.
Corot preferred painting out of doors. He is primarily known as one of the first artists to work in the forest near Barbizon. He went to this village for the first time in 1828, returning there often in the following years. Corot was an avid traveller, also abroad. In 1872 he traversed France and this was one of the paintings he made on that trip.
- Object number
- hwm0067
- Dimensions
- 43 cm x 59.3 cm, 74 cm x 90.4 cm, 11 cm
- Provenance
- Cambay, Paris, by 1875-1878; sold by Spiridon to Arnold & Tripp, Paris for FRF 3000, 21 February 1881; sold by Arnold & Tripp to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 6000, 5 May 1884; 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
Klein, Jacques-Sylvain, Piguet, Philippe, Les peintres de Normandie, Rennes, 2019, p. 60-61
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., De Mesdag Collectie, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 39, p. 47
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., The Mesdag Collection, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 36-37, 39, 47
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 96
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 61, 135-136