Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris 1796-1875)

Souvenir de Bretagne

Details

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris 1796-1875)
Souvenir de Bretagne
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on panel
21 x 14¼ in. (53½ x 36 cm.)
Painted in 1873.

Provenance

Gift of the artist to M. le Docteur Gratiot.
with MM. Brame, Bernheim and Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1889-1890.
Walton Collection, Arkansas.

Literature

A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, III, pp. 364-365, no. 2338.

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Lot Essay

This tranquil landscape with its cool, silvery light, patches of vibrant color and soft brushstrokes exhibits all of the characteristics for which Corot was so admired during his lifetime as well as today. As Auguste Renoir said of Corot, 'There you have the greatest genius of the century, the greatest landscape artist who ever lived. He was called a poet. What a misnomer! He was a naturalist. I have studied ceaselessly without ever being able to approach his art' (R. Gimpel, Dairy of an Art Dealer, New York, 1963, p. 28, entry from 20 March 1918).

We are grateful to Martin Dieterle and Claire Lebeau for confirming the authenticity of this work.

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