The Gypsies

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): COROT. 1872

M. Stumpf, ?Paris (by 1873–at least 1875; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 28, 1873, no. 9, as "Les Bohémians," for Fr 6,000, bought in); Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher, New York (until his d. 1917)

Paris. École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. "Exposition de l'œuvre de Corot," May 1875, no. 204 (as "Les Bohémiens," lent by M. Stumpf).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Mr. & Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection," March 4–?, 1918, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Barbizon: French Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century," February 4–May 10, 1992, no catalogue.

Alfred Robaut. L'Œuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonné et illustré. [reprint 1965]. Paris, 1905, vol. 3, pp. 336–37, no. 2216, ill.; vol. 4, p. 276, calls it "Les Bohémiens de Prague (Effet du soir)" and dates it 1872.

Eliot Clark. "The Fletcher Collection at the Metropolitan Museum: The Landscapes." Art World and Arts & Decoration 9 (August 1918), pp. 208–9, ill., as "The Bohemians".

"The Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 13 (March 1918), p. 60, as "The Bohemians".

"Current Art Notes." Connoisseur 82 (December 1928), p. 257, ill. p. 259, as "The Bohemians".

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 21.

Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, XIX Century. New York, 1966, p. 69, ill., call it "The Gypsies" and observe that the technique suggests that this painting was executed from memory.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 409, ill.