Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Ferryman Near the Old Broken Tree (Moonrise) (Le Passeur auprès du vieil arbre brisé (lever de lune))
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French 1796-1875
The Ferryman Near the Old Broken Tree (Moonrise) (Le Passeur auprès du vieil arbre brisé (lever de lune))
signed lower right: Corot
oil on canvas
canvas: 24 by 17 ¾ in.; 61 by 45 cm.
framed: 29 ¾ by 24 in.; 75.5 by 60.7 cm.
J. Saulnier, Paris;
His Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1886, no. 7, sold for 8,100 fr;
With Boussod et Valadon (nos. 17903 and 20055);
Purchased by Charles Sedelmeyer, 12 November 1890;
Private collection, Switzerland, until 1969;
Eva B. Cohn, New York, 1969;
Thence by descent.
Paris, Exposition de Maitres du Siecle, 1886, no. 37
Catalogue Exposition de Maitres du Siecle 1886, Paris, p. 6, no. 37.
Alfred Robaut, L’oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré, vol. III, Paris, Leonce Laget, 1905, no. 1723, p. 178-79, illustrated.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Claire Lebeau.
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