La Danse des nymphes

Details

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
La Danse des nymphes
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 ½ x 45 in. (87.5 x 114.5 cm.)
Painted in 1873.

Provenance

Mr. Duval.
A.S. Henraux.
Mme. Sanchez Toledo y Abreu, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 June 1978, lot 26.
Monsieur Michel Guy.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 19 March 1986, lot 75.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Schoeller & J. Dieterle, Corot, Deuxième Supplément à l’Œuvre de Corot par A. Robaut, Quatre Chemins Editart, Paris 1956, no. 84 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Corot had planned to exhibit this painting, executed in the vicinity of Nevers, at the Salon of 1873. Instead he gave it to his friend, Duval, and painted a second 'Danse des nymphes', this time in a vertical format, upon his return to Paris.

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