diff --git a/src/Faker/Provider/Image.php b/src/Faker/Provider/Image.php
index 0e31d50fae..2f0aa30bce 100644
--- a/src/Faker/Provider/Image.php
+++ b/src/Faker/Provider/Image.php
@@ -74,9 +74,15 @@ public static function image($dir = null, $width = 640, $height = 480, $category
             $fp = fopen($filepath, 'w');
             $ch = curl_init($url);
             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
-            $success = curl_exec($ch);
+            $success = curl_exec($ch) && curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) === 200;
+
+            if ($success) {
+                fclose($fp);
+            } else {
+                unlink($filepath);
+            }
+
             curl_close($ch);
-            fclose($fp);
         } elseif (ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
             // use remote fopen() via copy()
             $success = copy($url, $filepath);