Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 – Paris – 1875). ”Le Rhône. Trois femmes au bord du fleuve, assises sur un tronc d'abre”. Circa 1850/55 Oil on canvas. Relined. 24 × 39 cm (9 ½ × 15 ⅜ in.). Signed lower right (incised into the wet paint): COROT. On the stretcher lower left a label of Galerie Nathan, Zurich. Robaut 714.– [3366] Provenance: Émile Duhousset, Paris (1905) / Knoedler, Paris / Albert S. Henraux, Paris (1924) / Pierre Abreu, Paris (1938) / Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York / Mary V. T. Eberstadt, New York (1964) / The Metropolitan Museum, New York / Antiqua Anstalt, Liechtenstein (acquired at Sotheby's 1973 ) / Galerie Nathan, Zurich / Private Collection, Bavaria Exhibition: Exposition d’Œuvres de Corot. Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, 1905, cat. no. 26 / Corot. Dieppe, Musée de Dieppe, 1958, cat. no. 19 Literature and illustration: Élie Faure. Corot. Paris, Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie., 1931, ill. 52 / Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger: French Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. II: XIX Century. New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1966, p. 51, ill. / Auction catalogue. New York, Sotheby's, 15.2.1973, cat. no. 140, ill. / Auction catalogue. New York, Sotheby's, 7.5.1998, cat. no. 112, ill.