ID 1358499
Lot 60 | JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (PARIS 1796-1875)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
La solitude. Souvenir de Vigen (Limousin).
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 31 ¾ in. (54 x 80.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1867-68.
Provenance
with Hector Brame and Aimé Diot, Paris, acquired circa 1878, owned jointly.
Ernest-Adolphe Lemarinier (b. 1841) and Marie Anna, née Charmois, Lemarinier (1846-1926), the artist's grand-niece, Paris, by 1889.
with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, by 1903, where acquired on 21 December 1905 by,
with Galerie Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, where acquired on 26 December 1907 by,
Harry Samuel Henry (1856-1909), Philadelphia; his sale, American Art Galleries at Mendelssohn Hall, New York, 4 February 1910, lot 5, as Lake Nemi, where acquired by,
Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings (1861-1937), New York; his sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 8 January 1926, lot 16, as Lake Nemi, where acquired by,
James Norman Hill (1870–1932) and Marguerite Sawyer Hill Davis (1879-1948), New York, until at least 1942.
Mrs. M. Chapman, United Kingdom, by at least April 1974; her estate sale; Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 6 June 1978, lot 47, where acquired by,
Akram Ojjeh (1918-1991) and Nahed Ojjeh (b. 1959), Paris; their sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 1999, lot 106.
with Richard Green, London, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, Catalogue raisonné et illustré, III, Paris, 1905, p. 148, no. 1638 bis.
C.K.G. Billings, Fort Tryon Hall, The Residence of C. K. G. Billings, Esq., A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue Issued Privately by the Owner, New York, 1911, n. p., illustrated, as Lake Nemi.
Sunday Express, Johannesburg, April 1975, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., The Serene World of Corot, An Exhibition in Aid of the Salvation Army War Fund, 11 November-12 December 1942, p. 40, no. 56.
Johannesburg, Wildenstein & Co., Corot, 4-25 April 1975; also Cape Town, South African National Gallery, May 1975, no. 8, illustrated on the cover.
| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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