European & British Paintings Day Auction

European & British Paintings Day Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

La pêche sous les saules

Auction Closed

July 4, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection


Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

French

1796 - 1875

La pêche sous les saules


signed COROT lower left

oil on canvas

Unframed: 43.1 by 45.3cm., 17 by 17¾in.

Framed: 61.5 by 64cm., 24¼ by 25in.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Martin Dieterle & Claire Lebeau.

Mme Grédelue (her sale: Paris, 10th March 1887, lot 9)

M. Tempelaere (purchased at the above sale)

Jean Patrick Hennessy (1874-1944; French diplomat and politician)

Jean Dieterle (by 1946)

Rudolph Brauchbar, Zurich

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (acquired from the above in 1955)

George Francis Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (1910-1998, acquired from the above on 2nd December 1955); thence by descent  (sale: Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2013, lot 163)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Alfred Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. II, no. 969, p. 300, catalogued, p. 301, illustrated