Lot 5
5
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875)

Details
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875)

La Cueillette des Marguerites

signed lower right COROT, oil on canvas
28¼ x 19 1/8in. (71.8 x 48.5cm.)

Painted circa 1865-1870
Provenance
Jean Baptiste Faure, Paris (1830-1914); sale, Paris, 1873, lot 1 (7,000FF)
Sale G. de L...et E. (Haro), Paris, 20 April 1874, lot 7 (4,000FF)
M. Reichard, Paris, 1878
G. Seney, New York, 1880; sale, lot 289
Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1891
M. Bague, Paris, 1892
E. de Roy, Arnold et Tripp, 1893
Arnold et Tripp, Paris, 1894 (no. 3465)
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, March 1899
John Bailly, Paris, 1913
M. Bousquet, Paris
Mr. Valgliano; sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1955, lot 14
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, from whom bought by the mother of the present owner in 1956-57
Literature
A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, vol. III, Paris, 1965, no. 1668 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

Jean Baptiste Faure (1830-1914), the first owner of this work, was a celebrated baritone at the Paris Opera. From circa 1861, following Durand-Ruel's advice, he amassed a distinguished collection of works by Delacroix, Corot and the Barbizon school. In 1873 the collection underwent a radical change in direction as he started to collect pictures by Monet, Degas and the Impressionists. He sold his Corot and Barbizon pictures in two auctions in 1873 and 1878.

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