ID 878489
Lot 9 | JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1798-1875)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Souvenir de la Villa Borghèse
signed 'COROT' (lower right)
oil on panel
13 x 18 1/8 in. (33 x 46.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1855.
Provenance
with Galerie Tempelaere, Paris.
M. Farien, Paris.
Paul-Marie-Joseph Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), Paris.
Charles Edwards, Paris.
Frémyn, France.
Mme. R. Formy.
Her sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 March 1876, lot 4, as Effet du matin.
A. Nunès, purchased at the above sale.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 April 1894, lot 14.
with Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, purchased at the above sale.
Gustave Hoche and Marcelle Dusmesnil (1870-1951), Paris, purchased directly from the above, 28 April 1894.
Their sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 February 1895, lot 18.
with Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, purchased at the above sale.
Gustave Hoche, Paris, reacquired by 1896.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 March 1898, lot 14.
with Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, 21 March 1898, purchased at the above sale.
John Holme Ballantine (1834-1895), Newark, purchased directly from the above, 21 January 1899.
S. Ballantine, New York, by 1899.
with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.
M. Bruyn, Buenos Aires, by March 1923.
Private collection, by circa 1982.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 1999, lot 5.
with Richard Green, London, from whom purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A. Bloche, 'Le carnet de l'amateur,' Le Gaulois, Paris, 17 April 1894, p. 3.
'Collection de feu M.A.N.,' La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, Paris, 21 April 1894, p. 121.
'Memento des Ventes d'Art,' Journal des artistes, Paris, 22 April 1894, p. 549.
A. Bloche, 'Le carnet de l'amateur,' Le Gaulois, Paris, 22 February 1895, p. 4.
A. Bloche, 'Le carnet de l'amateur,' Le Gaulois, Paris, 23 February 1895, p. 3, as La villa Borghèse.
'Après l'enchère,' Repertoire des ventes, Paris, 5 March 1895, p. 311.
A. Alexandre, 'Essau sur Corot,' Monde Moderne, Paris, August 1896, p. 185, illustrated with the engraving, as Villa Borghèse - effet de matin.
'At the Hotel Drouot,' The New York Herald, Paris, 17 March 1898, p. 2.
'At the Hotel Drouot,' The New York Herald, Paris, 19 March 1898, p. 2.
'Mouvement des Arts,' La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, Paris, 16 April 1898, p. 140.
A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. II, p. 350, no. 1102, illustrated, p. 351, illustration erroneously numbered 1002.
J. Selz, La vie et l'œuvre de Camille Corot, Paris, 1988, p. 194, illustrated.
L. Thornton, La Femme dans le peinture orientaliste, Paris, 1993, p. 144, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais Galliera, Exposition Centenaire Corot, May - June 1895, no. 90.
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