Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

Details

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

L'Ile Heureuse

signed 'COROT.' lower left--oil on canvas
28 5/8 x 21 1/8in. (72.7 x 53.7cm.)

Provenance

Chtchoukine Collection, Russia (possibly purchased directly from Corot)
Sears Collection
With Knoedler & Co., New York (from 1942)
R.K.O. Theaters, 1958
With Hirschl & Adler, New York (1979)

Literature

M. Pantazzi, V. Pomarede and G. Tinterow, Corot, exh. cat., Paris, 1996, p. 368

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein, The Serene World of Corot, November 11-December 12, 1942, no. 51

Further details

Reproduced: The Connoisseur, vol. 171, no.689 (July 1969)

Lot Essay

This work is a reduction of one of the five paintings that Corot executed for Daubigny's country house at Auvers (see Corot, 1996, no. 128).

This painting has been examined and authenticated by Martin Dieterle, and will be included in the fifth supplement of the catalogue raisonné on Corot by Martin Dieterle and André Pacitti.