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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris 1796-1875)
Lot 109

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris 1796-1875)

Souvenir de Bretagne

Closed9 June 2010

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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris 1796-1875)
Souvenir de Bretagne
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on panel
21 x 14¼ in. (53½ x 36 cm.)
Painted in 1873.

Gift of the artist to M. le Docteur Gratiot.
with MM. Brame, Bernheim and Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1889-1890.
Walton Collection, Arkansas.

Specialist note

This tranquil landscape with its cool, silvery light, patches of vibrant color and soft brushstrokes exhibits all of the characteristics for which Corot was so admired during his lifetime as well as today. As Auguste Renoir said of Corot, 'There you have the greatest genius of the century, the greatest landscape artist who ever lived. He was called a poet. What a misnomer! He was a naturalist. I have studied ceaselessly without ever being able to approach his art' (R. Gimpel, Dairy of an Art Dealer, New York, 1963, p. 28, entry from 20 March 1918).

We are grateful to Martin Dieterle and Claire Lebeau for confirming the authenticity of this work.