JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)

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£ 150 000
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13.12.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 34 | JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)

Pêcheur amarré sur la rive verte

indistinctly signed 'COROT' (lower right)

oil on canvas

16 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (41 x 55 cm.)

Painted circa 1860-1865.





Provenance

A gift from the artist to Théodore Scribe.

By inheritance to his wife.

Her sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 December 1894, lot 6 (17,100 Ffr).

Purchased at the above sale by Mr. Le Roy.

Sir John Reid, Glasgow, by 1901.

By descent to Mrs. E.M. Salvesen, Glassel.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 2010, lot 255, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

D.S. MacColl, Nineteenth Century Art, Glasgow, 1901, illustrated.

A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. III, pp. 218-219, no. 1909, illustrated.

J.L. Caw, The collection of pictures of the British, French and Dutch Schools belonging to John Reid, Glasgow, 1913, p. 87, illustrated, as L'Etang.



Exhibited

Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901, no. 1345, as L'Etang, lent by Sir John Reid.

Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1902, no. 94, as L'Etang.

Kirkcaldy, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, Inaugural Loan Exhibition, 27 June - 12 September 1925, no. 12, as L'Etang, lent by Sir John Reid.

Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Paintings from North East Homes: Festival of Britain, 1951, no. 18, as L'Etang.



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