Ville d'Avray, vachère à l'étang

Details

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Ville d'Avray, vachère à l'étang
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15¼ x 22 in. (38.7 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1855-60.

Provenance

Robert Treat Paine, Boston.
Thence by descent to the Estate of Barbara B. Paine.
Their sale, Christie's, New York, 22 May 1996, lot 135.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

P. Dieterle, M. Dieterle and C. Lebeau, Corot: cinquième supplément à L'Oeuvre de Corot par A. Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton, Éditions Floury, Paris 1905, Paris, 2002, pp. 54-5, no. 53 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Ville d'Avray, some ten miles from Paris, was to provide Corot with an important subject for his paintings throughout his career. Corot's father bought a country home in Ville d'Avray in 1817, and Corot never tired of painting this place which had meant so much to him as a youth. He was to record trees, ponds and rivers around Ville d'Avray up until the last months of his life. Corot's landscapes beginning in 1850 start to take on a silvery feather-like quality, a trait that would characterize all of his subsequent paintings.

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