$36,735
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) Bords d'une riviere avec deux clochers emergeant des arbres Signed "COROT" l. l. Oil on panel, 8 7/8 x 17 3/8 in. (22.5 x 44.0 cm), framed (under glass). Condition: Cradled, minute scattered retouch, fine scattered craquelure subtle surface grime. Provenance: The collection of MM. Arnold and Tripp, 1893, through to Ellwood R. Burdsall, circa 1927, then by descent to the present owner. Literature: Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue Raisonne et Illustre, (Paris, 1965), entry 1454. N.B. Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot was a seminal figure in 19th century landscape painting, producing works that inspired both contemporary and future artists, in particular, the Impressionists. Corot was trained in Neoclassical painting, studying the works of Achille-Etna Michallon and Jean Victor Bertin, but he was also aware of new trends in landscape painting which began to emerge in England in the 18th century. Artists were beginning to sketch outdoors and were more aware of light and shade and a new ³appreciation of nature and the relaxing of rigid ways of thinking about landscape² developed.1 Corot embraced this new approach to painting and produced works that displayed the ³new code of the picturesque²2 and included elements of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and the Barbizon School. His carefully balanced compositions have with an ³optical denseness²3 created through soft, feathering strokes and subtle tones. ³In Corot¹s pi
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-09-12