Lot 27
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot(French, 1796-1875)Environs d'Arras, borde de la Scarpe 12 1/2 x 16in (31.8 x 40.7cm)
8 July 2020, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$80,000 - US$120,000
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Environs d'Arras, borde de la Scarpe
stamped with 'Vente Corot' red stamp (Lugt 460; lower right); stamped with 'Vente Corot' red wax seal (on reverse)
oil on panel
12 1/2 x 16in (31.8 x 40.7cm)
stamped with 'Vente Corot' red stamp (Lugt 460; lower right); stamped with 'Vente Corot' red wax seal (on reverse)
oil on panel
12 1/2 x 16in (31.8 x 40.7cm)
Footnotes
Executed circa 1860-65.
Provenance
The artist's studio; sale, Hôtel Drouout, Paris, 26-28 May 1875, lot. 125 (FF500);
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale;
John Levy Galleries, New York;
Gertrude B. Oresman, New York;
Sale, Christie's, New York, 24 October 1990, lot 36;
Sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 2000, lot 126.
Literature
Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1965, Vol. III, pp. 124-125, No. 1592, illustrated.
Corot traveled frequently to Arras from 1851 on, often in the company of friends and fellow artists, such as his close friend Constant Dutilleux, who had family in Arras (Dutilleux would die of a stroke in 1865). Initially preferring solitude, Corot had taken up the habit of working in a group since his time in Italy.
Records show that Corot had stayed in Arras in October 1859 but did not return for several years, indicating that he may have completed the present work from the many plein-air sketches he penned before.