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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Lot 6

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

La Danse des nymphes

Closed12 July 2018

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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.

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.

Specialist note

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.