ID 878456
Lot 7 | JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
Nymphes et faunes
signed 'Corot' (lower right)
oil on canvas
381/2 x 511/2 in. (97.8 x 131 cm.)
Painted in 1870.
Provenance
Laurent-Richard sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 April 1873, lot 5.
M. Defoer, purchased from the above sale.
His sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1886, lot 2.
with Knoedler & Co., Paris, 1887.
Barlett Collection, Boston, 1890.
William H. Fuller Collection, New York, 1912.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, circa 1922.
Collection Butterworth; Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 October 1954, lot 22.
with Wildenstein & Co., New York.
Miss A.D. Wiman sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 October 1963, lot 47.
Purchased at the above sale by J.W. Brown.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 22 April 2004, lot 104.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12 October 2011, lot 31, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, July 1870.
A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. III, pp. 244-5, no. 2002, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1870, no. 648, as Paysage avec figures.
Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Corot, 1875, no. 179, lent by Defoer.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Cent-Chefs-d'Oeuvre, 1883, no 1.
New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1934, no. 26.
Munich, Haus der Kunst Munchen, Im Licht von Claude Lorrain. Landschaftsmalerei aus drei Jarhunderten, 12 March - 29 May 1983, no. 162.
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