Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 11 March 1892, lot 10 (as Paysage), for 2,000 francs;

With Arnold and Tripp, Paris;

Julius David Ichenhäuser (1858–1910), London and New York;

His sale, New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 22–24 March 1911, lot 63 (as Landscape);

Where acquired by Edward Wasserman (d. 1915), New York;

John C. Leslie, New York, probably circa 1915;

Thence by descent to his daughter Emma Ross Leslie Meritt;

From whom acquired by William Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016), New York, by 2014;

Thence by descent to the present owners.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long-term loan, April 2014 – August 2018;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, 7 March – 5 September 2016, pl. 101;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Parks, Private Gardens, Paris to Provence, 12 March – 29 July 2018, fig. 25.

A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris 1905, vol. II, pp. 182–83, no. 496, reproduced pl. 496;

C. Baum, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, exh. cat., New York 2016, pp. 152 and 281–82, reproduced in colour p. 152, pl. 101;

C. Ives, Public Parks, Private Gardens, Paris to Provence, exh. cat., New York 2018, pp. 29, 31 and 180, reproduced in colour p. 31, fig. 25.