Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Vente Fremyn, April 1875, no. 11
Collection Mesdag
Collection Sanderson
Collection John Day
Boussod et Valadon, Paris (in 1887, no. 18327)
Vente Post, Amsterdam, April 14, 1891, no. 18
Arnold et Tripp, Paris (in 1891, no. 3136)
E. Le Roy, Paris (in 1891, no. 1756)
Tedesco, Paris, (in June 13, 1912, no. 8523)
A. Fayard, Paris (in 1912)
Jos Hessel and Paul Rosenberg, Paris (in 1939)
The Estate of Barbara Pauley Pagen (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 2003, lot 28, illustrated)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. III, no. 2407, p. 378, illustrated p. 379

The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This painting is in good condition. The canvas has been lined, with glue as an adhesive. There are a few tiny retouches in the thinnest areas of paint on the bottom edge on the left side and in some of the pentimenti in the torrent as well. In general, however, the condition is very good.
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This late landscape was once owned by the prominent Hague School painter, Hendik Willem Mesdag (see lot 13). While an important and influential artist in his own right, Mesdag is also remembered as a prominent collector. During his lifetime, the size of his collection became so large that he applied for a building permit in 1886 to make an addition on his house. He collected works by French artists, especially the Barbizon School, and is known to have traded his own works with other artists. The Mesdag Museum was presented to the Netherlands in 1903.