JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)

SAINT-QUENTIN-DES-PRéS (OISE), PRèS GOURNAY-EN-BRAY

细节

JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
SAINT-QUENTIN-DES-PRéS (OISE), PRèS GOURNAY-EN-BRAY
SIGNED 'COROT' (LOWER LEFT)
OIL ON CANVAS
17.1/8 X 12.7/8IN. (43.5 X 32.7CM.)
PAINTED CIRCA 1855-70

来源

EMILE DE NEVERS, OISE.

出版

A. ROBAUT, L'OEUVRE DE COROT, CATALOGUE RAISONNé ET ILLUSTRé, VOL. III, PARIS, 1965, NO. 1415 (SKETCH BY A. ROBAUT, P. 58).

展览

VERSAILLES, EXPOSITION D'ART RéTROSPECTIF, 1881, NO. 522.
OSLO, HENIE-ONSTAD ARTCENTER, JUNE-AUGUST 1978.

拍场告示

MARTIN DIETERLE HAS KINDLY CONFIRMED THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS WORK.

拍品专文

THE DEVICE OF A PATH OR TRACK LEADING UPWARD AND BACKWARD INTO THE COMPOSITION, OFTEN WITH A GENTLE TURN TO PUNCTUATE THE RECESSION, WAS A RECURRING MOTIF IN COROT'S OEUVRE. IT WAS ALSO A DEVICE ADOPTED BY CAMILLE PISSARRO WHO WAS A FREQUENT VISITOR TO COROT'S STUDIO IN THE EARLY 1860S. IN THE SALON OF 1864, PISSARRO WENT SO FAR AS TO REGISTER HIMSELF AS THE PUPIL OF COROT.

ACCORDING TO ROBAUT (OP. CIT., P. 58), COROT PAINTED THIS PICTURE AS AN AFFECTIONATE SOUVENIR OF A ROMANTIC AREA SURROUNDING A STRETCH OF THE RIVER OISE THAT PARTICULARLY APPEALED TO HIM. HE CHRISTENED THE WORK VALLON DES NYMPHES. THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE PICTURE WAS EMILE DE NEVERS, A CLOSE FRIEND OF COROT AND THE PROPRIETOR OF A SMALL MILL SITUATED ON THE RIVER.