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Property from a Distinguished Private British Collection

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Limay, près Mantes - prairies abritées par les arbres

Live auction begins on:

June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Bid

90,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 

1796 - 1875 


Limay, près Mantes - prairies abritées par les arbres 

signed Corot (lower right)

oil on canvas

51 by 61.8 cm. 20 by 24¾ in.

framed: 70.2 by 80 cm. 27⅝ by 31½ in.

Executed in September 1873.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Claire Lebeau based on photographs. 

Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris (acquired in 1875)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 April 1878, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Georgette Josy Cornwallis-West, London

Estate of Georgette Josy Cornwallis-West, London (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, 1875, no. 146

Alfred Roubaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. III, no. 2174, p. 306; p. 307, illustrated