JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875) Environs d'Amsterdam, petite ferme des bords de l'Amstel
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 5⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in. (21.8 x 13.7 cm.)
Painted in 1854.
JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875) Environs d'Amsterdam, petite ferme des bords de l'Amstel
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 5⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in. (21.8 x 13.7 cm.)
Painted in 1854.
The artist. His estate sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26-28 May 1875, lot 127, as En Hollande, Une ferme sur les bords de l'Amstel, près Amsterdam. Jules Chamouillet (1839-1897), Paris, his grand-nephew, acquired at the above sale. Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 June 1894. Alexander Young, London. His estate sale; Christie's, London, 1 July 1910, lot 155, as Farm Buildings. with Gustave Tempelaere, Paris, acquired at the above sale. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 April 2003, lot 66. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. II, pp. 246-247, no. 739, illustrated, vol. IV, p. 206, no. 127, illustrated.