Le Tréport, maison dominant la mer

细节

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Le Tréport, maison dominant la mer
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 3/8 x 14 5/8 in. (21.3 x 37.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1855-60.

来源

Gift from the artist to a charity sale, 31 January 1872.
Bought from the above sale by Mayer.
Sale, Mélas, Marseille, 30 April 1874.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1979, lot 64.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

出版

A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1905, vol. II, p. 274, no. 856, illustrated p. 275.

展览

Liechtenstein, Kunstmuseum, on extended loan from the present owner.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品专文

Robaut (op. cit.) notes that Corot executed the present work in the company of Constant Dutilleux, one of his closest friends. The two artists are known to have travelled up the Northern French coast together on an extended painting trip in September 1857, although the wispy trees in the foreground suggest that the present work was probably painted in springtime.

An inveterate traveller, and frequent visitor to the Dutilleux's family home in Arras, in Northern France, Corot was enamoured with the silvery light of the Channel coast. Markedly different to the bolder, more startkly lit paintings of Corot's earlier Italian period paintings, in its softness of mood and subtlety of composition, the present work is typical of the artists's landscape interpretations of the period.