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Camille COROT (Paris 1796 - 1875)
The Pond with Wooded Banks…
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Camille COROT (Paris 1796 - 1875)
The Pond with Wooded Banks…
See original version (French)
Estimate €30,000 - €40,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Camille COROT (Paris 1796 - 1875)
The Pond with Wooded Banks, 1868
Oil on canvas
21 x 34 cm
Signed lower left Corot
Bearing on the back on the crossbar an old label stating in red ink 2223
A certificate from Mr Martin Dieterle will be given to the buyer
Provenance
Sold by Corot to Tedesco in December 1868 (Archives Tedesco n° 2435)
Sold to Francis Petit in 1892 (Archives n°2223)
Private collection Lausanne
Sale Tableaux mobilier objets d'Art , 14 March 2005, Hôtel Drouot, Paris , Maitre Rieunier et Associés; n°23
Acquired at this sale by the current owner
Bibliography:
P. Dieterle and A. Pacitti; l'Oeuvre de Corot, Paris 1992, n° 35 page 48
From his classical artistic training, particularly with his master Achille-Etna Michallon (1796-1822), Corot became detached during his various travels. During his first stay in Rome in the 1820s, he discovered a light that he worked from then on to transcribe in his works. He produced a large number of sketches drawn on the spot, as well as painted sketches, from which he drew individual motifs that he used in larger compositions in his studio. On his return to France, he became close to the artists gathered at Barbizon and began to work on the motif, setting up his easel in the middle of nature to paint truly accomplished works. He then travelled to Switzerland, England and the Netherlands, and toured the different regions of France. Wherever he went, Corot painted from life the landscapes he encountered. He won his first medal at the Salon of 1834, and continued to exhibit there in the following years. Benefiting from the support of Napoleon III, Corot broke away even further from academicism and worked increasingly by mixing motifs from different sketches to create souvenirs. These dream landscapes marked the beginning of Impressionist thinking, and made Corot the precursor of the movement that would blossom a few years later.
Our composition is a fine example of these dreamlike paintings: this landscape with a pond does not seem to be identifiable. It is more likely to be an imaginary view, created from different motifs, probably in the studio. Neither the trees in the composition nor the pond make it possible to identify the place. Here, Corot took pleasure in describing a peaceful stroll in the heart of a verdant landscape, with a pond and a few cows; he displays all his talent as a painter, as an observer of nature and its effects of light, making this charming composition a typical work of his.
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