
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875) · after 1868
Scholars speculate that Camille Corot's model for this painting was Emma Dobigny, the frail young girl who posed for the two versions of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's painting <em>Hope</em> of 1872 (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore).<br><br>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.
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