Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

ITALIAN LANDSCAPE IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, WITH HAYSTACKS AT LEFT AND AFARM ON THE HILL TO THE RIGHT Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot PARIS 1796 - 1875 VILLE D'AVRAY oil on canvas 7 1/4 by 13 1/2 in.; 18.4 by 34.3 cm. Provenance Private collection, France; With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna; There acquired by the present collector. Literature M. Dieterle and C. Lebeau,Corot: Sixième Supplément, Paris 2018, p. 21, cat. no. 18, reproduced. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is one of the most important landscape painters in 19th century France. His style absorbed that of the 17th century masters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin while anticipating the Impressionist landscapes of the later 19th century. Corot's small-scale canvases, such as the present example, would have been painteden plein air, a technique that was rarer at the time but later embraced with enthusiasm by the Impressionists. Though at the time he used these oil sketches as preparatory works, his remarkablesense of light and soft, loose brushworkgive them an air of modernity which makes them as appealing to today's viewer as his more finished compositions. Though the artist was primarily based in Paris, thewarm light in the present painting places the landscape in the Roman campagna. Corot traveled in Italy several times: in 1825, 1834 and 1843. Dieterle and Lebeau date the painting to 1827-28, at the end of his first trip to the country (see Literature).

Description: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) Souvenir D'Italie, 1863, probably the fourth state of four, published by A. Cadard et al., Paris (Delteil 5; Melot 5). Unsigned. Etching on Japan paper, plate size 12 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (31.6 x 23.7 cm), framed. Condition: Deckled lower edge, gently light-struck, mat burn.

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (French, 1796-1875). Paysage d'Italie." 1866. Etching on laid paper. Delteil No. 7; Melot No. 7. 3rd state of 3, after erasing the address of the editors Cadart and Lucquet, and the printer Delâtre. Plate: 6 1/4" x 9 3/8" Sheet: 12 1/2" x 13 3/8" Condition: Very good to near fine condition.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Corot (French, 1796-1875) Le moulin sur la dune with studio stamp 'VENTE/COROT' (lower right); and stamped with the studio sale wax seal (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 9 ¾ x 13 in. (24.5 x 32 cm.) Painted circa 1870-1872. Provenance The artist's studio sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26-28 May 1875, lot 483 (500 Frs.). Acquired at the above sale by Mr. Baillou, Paris. Thence by descent, until 1988. Private collection, France.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) Fontainebleau - groupe d'arbres sur le flanc d'un coteau pierreux signed 'COROT' (lower left) oil on canvas 16 x 23 3/8 in. (40.6 x 59.4 cm.) Painted in 1845-1850. Provenance Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1892, lot 10, as Paysage. with Arnold and Tripp, Paris. Julius David Ichenhäuser (1858-1910), London and New York. His estate sale; Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 22-24 March 1911, lot 63, as Landscape. Edward Wasserman (d. 1915), New York, acquired at the above sale. John C. Leslie, New York, probably circa 1915. Emma Ross Leslie Meritt, his daughter, by descent. with Coleman Bancroft, LLC, New York. Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 2014.