Lot 42
  • 42

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
  • Marino. Vallée avec un cavalier et une Italienne
  • stamped VENTE COROT (lower left), inscribed Marino and dated Mai 1827 (lower center), indistinctly inscribed (lower right) 
  • pencil on paper 
  • 11 by 15 7/8 in.
  • 27.9 by 40.3 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist (and sold, Vente Corot, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26 - June 9, 1875, lot 519)
Henri Rouart, Paris (by 1912, and sold, his sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, December 16 - 18, 1912, lot 20)
M. Devillez (acquired at the above sale)
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Davis, Boston (by 1960)
R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Boston  
Mr. Norton Simon, Pasadena (and sold, his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 5, 1971, lot 1, illustrated)
Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent 

Exhibited

The Art Institute of Chicago, Corot, 1960, no. 148 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Davis)

Literature

Arsène Alexandre, La Collection Henri Rouart, Paris, 1912, p. 117 (as Marino) 
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. IV, p. 26, no. 2582, illustrated, p. 27 

Condition

Pencil on paper. A faint landscape sketch can be found on the reverse. A vertical strip of paper that is approximately two inches wide has been adhered to the verso of the main sheet. There are vertical hard creases at center right and handling creases throughout. There is tape on the upper corners and the work is hinged to the top along the left and right edges. There is a small paper fault and a very small tear in the lower right corner. There is very minor abrasion to the sheet next to the Vente stamp and around the hard crease. There is minor scattered foxing and discolorations throughout. A full condition report from Alvarez Conservation Services is available upon request.
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