Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Fontainebleau: Group of trees on the flank of a rocky hillside

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Property from the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Paris 1796–1875 Ville d'Avray

Fontainebleau: Group of trees on the flank of a rocky hillside

signed lower left: COROT

oil on paper laid down on canvas

40.6 x 59.4 cm.; 16 x 23 ¼ in.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Claire Lebeau based on first-hand inspection. A letter of authentication may be requested from Mme Lebeau by the buyer.

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 11 March 1892, lot 10 (as Paysage), for 2,000 francs;

With Arnold and Tripp, Paris;

Julius David Ichenhäuser (1858–1910), London and New York;

His sale, New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 22–24 March 1911, lot 63 (as Landscape);

Where acquired by Edward Wasserman (d. 1915), New York;

John C. Leslie, New York, probably circa 1915;

Thence by descent to his daughter Emma Ross Leslie Meritt;

From whom acquired by William Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016), New York, by 2014;

Thence by descent to the present owners.

A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris 1905, vol. II, pp. 182–83, no. 496, reproduced pl. 496;

C. Baum, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, exh. cat., New York 2016, pp. 152 and 281–82, reproduced in colour p. 152, pl. 101;

C. Ives, Public Parks, Private Gardens, Paris to Provence, exh. cat., New York 2018, pp. 29, 31 and 180, reproduced in colour p. 31, fig. 25.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long-term loan, April 2014 – August 2018;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, 7 March – 5 September 2016, pl. 101;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Parks, Private Gardens, Paris to Provence, 12 March – 29 July 2018, fig. 25.