Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Arnold & Tripp (by 1893)
Georges Feydeau 
Baron Blanquet de Fulde (sale: Hôtel Drouot, 12 March 1900, lot 18 (as La Rafale))
Bernheim Jeune, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris
Mr Wallis, England (acquired from the above in 1906)
Probably, Sir James Laird, Glasgow; thence by descent to the present owner, grandson of the above

Alfred Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, Paris, 1905, vol. III, p. 348, no. 2266, catalogued; p. 349, illustrated

The canvas has an old relining. Under ultraviolet light the varnish fluoresces quite opaquely especially over the lower third of the composition suggesting the work may have been selectively cleaned in the past; only some relatively minor scattered strokes of retouching are visible under U.V. light, notably 2 strokes and a small area to the lower right of the main tree, and in the sky to the upper-left and right of the tree. The work is in good overall condition and ready to hang. Presented in a decorative rococo-style gilt frame.
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Painted circa 1865-72. A related larger version by Corot of the present work was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1864.