Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Ville d'Avray - bucheronnes dans une prairie au bord des bois

Auction Closed

July 3, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate 


Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Paris 1797–1875

Ville-d'Avray bucheronnes dans une prairie au bord des bois

(Wood gatherers in a meadow, Ville-d'Avray)


signed lower left: COROT

oil on canvas

unframed: 31.2 x 38.7 cm.; 12¼ x 15¼ in.

framed: 56.5 x 65.2 cm.; 22¼ x 25¾ in.

André Julien Prévost, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 24 May 1887, lot 15 (as Intérieur de bois à Ville-d'Avray);

Heine Collection, Leipzig (confiscated in 1938 by the Nazis and deposited at the Leipzig Museum der bildenden Künst until 1994);

Restituted to a Heine descendant, and thereafter offered for sale ('Property from a European family'), London, Sotheby’s, 28 June 1994, lot 3, where unsold;

By whom acquired privately by Walter J. Johnson (1908–1996), New York;

By whom sold ('Property from the Collection of Walter J. Johnson'), New York, Christie’s, 22 May 1997, lot 191; 

Where acquired by the present owner.

A. Robaut, L’œuvre de Corot, Paris 1965, vol. II, pp. 102–3, no. 286, reproduced.