The European Art Sale Part I
The European Art Sale Part I
A Private New York Collection
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Ville d’Avray
Auction Closed
January 27, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
1796 - 1875
Ville d’Avray
oil on canvas
canvas: 9⅛ by 15⅛ in.; 23.1 by 38.4 cm
framed: 15¼ by 21¼ in.; 38.5 by 53.8 cm
Collection Prevost
His sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 May 1887, lot 29
Adolphe Obrig
His Estate sale: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 29 October 1931, lot 28, (as Landscape Study)
Mrs. H. Rightmire
with Thomas Colville, New York
Acquired from the above by present owner, 2015
Alfred Robaut, L’oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré, vol. II, Paris, Leonce Laget, 1965, no. 526, p. 190-91, illustrated.
While Robaut has dated this work to circa 1840-1845 in his catalogue Raisonné, Martin Dieterle has affirmed in his photo certificate that this work dates from an earlier period, around 1825.