Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 1877
Diot, Paris, 1877
Sale: Christie's, London, July 12, 1902
Obac, London (1902)
Arnold et Tripp, Paris (1905, no. 6018)
Tempelaere, Paris (April 1907)
Collection of Mme. Emile Staub, Terlinden, Switzerland (1928)
Haseltine, London (1977)
Shickman Gallery, New York (1978)
Gallery Iida, Toyko (1978)
Daimaru department store, Kobe
Private Collector (acquired from the above  circa 1978)
Thence by descent

 

Zurich, 1934, no. 79
Paris, Wildenstein, Peintures françaises en Suisse, 1938, no. 24
New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Serene World of Corot, 1942

Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. II, p. 306, no. 996, illustrated p. 307

The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This painting has been recently restored and could be hung as is. The restoration is almost entirely focused on a break in the canvas in the lower left sky which enters into the cottages on the left side. The lining has nicely stabilized the paint layer. There seems to be no other abrasion or restoration apart from a few tiny dots on the extreme left edge. The painting should be hung as is.
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