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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

Details
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

La route à l'orée du bois

signed 'COROT' lower left--oil on panel
7 5/8in. x 16¼in. (19.4 x 41.3cm.)
Provenance
With Galérie Georges Petit, Paris (circa 1880)
Mme. Binder-Mestre, Paris (1889)
With Boussod et Valadon, Paris (1902)
M. H. Pasquier, Paris (1902); sale, Galérie Georges Petit, Paris, May 2, 1905, no. 15
With Van Wisselingh, Amsterdam (circa 1924)
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, Feb. 28, 1972, no. 15
Nusser, Munich (1973)
Literature
A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1965, vol. III, no. 2459(E) (illustrated)

Lot Essay

This painting has been examined and authenticated by Martin Dieterle.