Lot 165
  • 165

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

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.