Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Vaches au marais, le matin
signed 'Corot' (lower right)
oil on panel
12¼ x 17¼ in. (31.1 x 43.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1850
Provenance
Verdier, Paris, 1869 (purchased directly from the artist).
Goupil et Cie., Paris, 1876.
J. Paton; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1878, 24 April 1883, lot 36.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, circa 1887.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1921.
Comte de Lainsecq; his sale, Paris, 5 April 1922.
Knoedler-Bernheim, Paris, 1922.
Pivot, Paris, 1927.
Schoeller, Paris, 1931.
Stein, Rio de Janeiro, 1933.
St. Louis Museum of Art; Christie's, New York, 12 October 1993, lot 60.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. II, pp. 368-9, no. 1145 (illustrated).
Lot Essay
This work has been examined and authenticated by Martin Dieterle.
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