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Woman Meditating
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About this work
This painting, acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1949, as a work by Corot, proved to be a copy when the signed original reappeared at a public auction in New York in 1981. Although the original, Jeune Femme Pensive or La Méditation , is not in the Corot catalogue raisonné compiled by his friend Alfred Robaut, that painting does have an unquestionable origin. According to one source, Corot painted the original version in Paris in 1866–68 and allowed his pupil, Eugène Lavieille, to make a copy with permission.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWoman Meditating, after 1868. Copy after Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875). Oil on fabric; unframed: 59.4 x 42.9 cm (23 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1949.189
