Fermière agenouillée cueillant des pissenlits

Details

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Fermière agenouillée cueillant des pissenlits
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (22 x 32 cm.)
Painted circa 1865.

Provenance

with Boussard, Valadon & Cie., Paris, 1892.
Raphaël Gérard, Paris.
Mme. Renaud, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30 March 1987, lot 31.
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 30 June 1987, lot 101.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Schoeller and J. Dieterle, Corot, Premier supplément à 'L'Oeuvre de Corot' par A.Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton, Paris, 1948, no. 64, p. 70 (illustrated).
'Corot', in Bulletin T. Bernaerts Tassin, January 1989, p. 12 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The present lot is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by P. Dieterle, dated 9 March 1990. The painting is a study for the kneeling figure in the piece Vallée de la Ferté-Milon (Schoeller & Dieterle, 1948, p. 73).

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