Jean Baptiste Camille Corot* (1796-1875)

Cavalier dans une gorge (Horse and Rider in a Gorge)

Details

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot* (1796-1875)
Cavalier dans une gorge (Horse and Rider in a Gorge)
signed 'COROT' (lower right)
oil on canvas
52.5/8 x 22 in. (133.6 x 56.5 cm.)
Painted 1865-1868

Provenance

Charles Franois Daubigny, Auvers-sur-Oise
M. Bernheim, Brussels
Messrs. Rothschild and Sedelmeyer
Bernheim, Brussels (March 1884)
P.C. Hanford; sale, American Art Association, New York, 30 January 1902, lot 32
William A. Coolidge, Topsfield, Massachusetts
Estate of William A. Coolidge (gift to MIT)

Literature

A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, Catalogue raisonn et illustr, Paris, 1965, vol. III, p. 152, no. 1648 (illustrated, p. 153).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Ottawa, Muse des Beaux-Arts du Canada; and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corot, 1796-1875, exh. cat., p. 368.

Lot Essay

In June 1860, on the recommendation of Corot, Daubigny purchased property at Auvers-sur-Oise. Cavalier dans une gorge was one of the five paintings that Corot executed between 1865 and 1868 to decorate the entrance of Daubigny's house.

Martin Dieterle has examined and confirmed the authenticity of this painting.