Lot 76
  • 76

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
  • Marcoussis, La Mare aux vaches
  • signed COROT (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 9 1/2 by 18 1/4 in.
  • 24.2 by 46.3 cm

Provenance

Sale: Bernheim, Brussels (March 1884)
M. Cahen, Anvers (acquired at the above sale)
Raphaël Gérard, Paris (1892)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (in 1912)
Aaron Anderson, Sweden
Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London (in 1962)
Acquired from the above in September 1968

Literature

Alfred Robaut, L'œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. II, p. 188, no. 520, illustrated p. 189 (painted circa 1845-50)

Condition

Lined, widely patterned craquelure; under UV: inpainting to address craquelure throughout surface.
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