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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Le Monastère derrière les Arbres
- signed COROT (lower right)
- oil on panel
- 15 3/4 by 21 3/4 in.
- 40 by 55.2 cm
Provenance
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7, 1872, lot 9, as Paysage avec Figures
Quincy Adams Shaw, Boston (circa 1870-1880)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Julianne Flint Pringle and Patricia Flint Breckenridge
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1990, lot 17, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, circa 1918 (on loan)
Literature
Edward Strahan, The Art Treasures of America being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America, Philadelphia, 1879-82, vol. II, p. 87
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1965, vol. II, p. 376, no. 1196, illustrated
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1976, vol. II, p. 182, as Paysage avec Figures
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1965, vol. II, p. 376, no. 1196, illustrated
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1976, vol. II, p. 182, as Paysage avec Figures
Catalogue Note
Painted circa 1855-1860.
This painting originally belonged to Quincy Adams Shaw of Boston. During his lifetime Shaw assembled one of the most important collections of Barbizon paintings in America, including the most comprehensive assemblage of works by Jean-François Millet outside of France.