Two Italian Peasants

1843 (?)

17.8 cm 29.5 cm

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An elderly man appears lost in thought, while his young companion looks hesitantly outwards. This vibrantly colored painting, with its sharp contrasts of light and shadow, is now thought to have been painted in Paris following Corot's return from Italy in 1843. The two sitters...

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Constant Dutilleux (?); Etienne Moreau-Nélaton (?) [early Walters catalogues, without foundation, list as early owners Constant Dutilleux and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton]; Alfred Robaut, 1858, by purchase [from the artist]; P. A. Cheramy, Paris, 1886 [mode of acquisition unknown]; P. A. Chéramy Sale, 1908, no. 138; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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