Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Dunkerque. Une pêcheuse de crevettes

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January 30, 05:55 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Paris 1796 - 1875 Ville d'Avray

Dunkerque. Une pêcheuse de crevettes

signed lower right: COROT

oil on panel

canvas: 10 by 17 7/8 in.; 25.4 by 45.3 cm.

framed: 17 3/8 by 25 3/4 in.; 44.1 by 65.4 cm.

We would like to thank Martin Dieterle and Claire Lebeau for kindly confirming the authenticity of this lot.

The artist;
By whom sold, Paris, M. Boussaton, 14 April 1858, lot 14 (as Environs de Dunkerque);
There acquired by Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, Paris;
By whom sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 April 1893, lot 4 (as Les dunes de Dunkerque);
With Hector Brame, Paris;
From whom acquired by Goupil & Cie., Paris, May 1893 (as Les Dunes, no. 23022);
From whom acquired by Arnold & Tripp, Paris, October 1893;
Mrs. John Woodruff Simpson (née Seney), New York, by 1942;
From whom acquired by Knoedler & Co., New York, 1944;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, New York, 24 October 1990, lot 33;
Acquired in 2009.

A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. II, p. 252, cat no. 761, reproduced p. 253

In September 1857, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot traveled to Dunkirk, a coastal town near the border of France and Belgium, with fellow artists Constant Dutilleux and Charles Desavary. There Corot painted at least ten oils, the present work included, of Dunkirk’s dunes, fishermen and large harbor.

The following year, Dunkerque. Une pêcheuse de crevettes was sold in the artist’s first auction, under commissaire-priseur and dealer M. Boussaton. Thirty-eight works were offered, with only two unsold, for a total of 14,223 francs, easing the artist’s initial concerns with the sale format. The present work was purchased at this auction by the sculptor Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume.