Suresnes

Details

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875)
Suresnes
signed 'Corot' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8¾ x 13 7/8 in. (22.2 x 35.3 cm.)
Painted in 1855-1870

Provenance

Arnold et Tripp, Paris, by 1892.
Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford, by 1911.
Barbizon House, London, acquired by David Croal Thompson from the above circa 1919-1923.
Private collection, Canada.
Acquired by the present owner in 1978.

Literature

D.C. Thompson, Barbizon House: An illustrated Record, London, 1923, no. 4 (illustrated).
M.E. Sadleir, Michael Ernest Sadler 1861-1943, London, 1949, p. 383. A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Catalogue raisonné et illustré, vol. III, Paris, 1965, no. 1410 (illustrated p. 56).

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Lot Essay

This work is recorded in Martin Dieterle's archives.

Dated by Robaut to 1855-1870, the present work, depicting the Villa Worth in the background, was most probably painted in 1865 when Corot was staying with the Worth family in Suresnes, where he taught their children how to paint.

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