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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot french, 1796 - 1865

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c. 1823 – 24 Oil on board 8 5 ⁄ 8 x 13 inches ( 22 x 33 cm) Estate sale stamp, recto: Lugt 460 and verso: Lugt 3905 provenance: Vente Corot, 1875 , no. 240 ; Paul Détrimont, Paris (probably purchased with 18 other works at above sale); Cornelis Hoogendijk (d. 1911 ), his sale, Amsterdam, May 21 – 22 , 1912 , no. 14 ; Anonymous sale Amsterdam, April 22 – 28 , 1947 ; André Schoeller and Jean Dieterle. Corot. Deuxième supplement à “L’Oeuvre de Corot” par A. Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton . Paris: Quatre Chemins-Éditart, 1956 , no. 2 Our painting dates from Corot’s early career right after his years as a student of Achille-Etna Michallon ( 1796 – 1822 ) and when he was a student of Jean-Victor Bertin ( 1767 – 1842 ). From Michallon he had learned the technique of pleine-air painting, a practice intended as a precursor to the more laborious work of constructing landscape tableaux in the studio. However, for Corot and subsequent generations of modern landscape artists, the spontaneity and freshness of these preliminary studies became the end goal, as they sought to preserve the aesthetic of the sketch in their finished works. Henri Vermunt, Wassenaar, Holland; Private Collection, France since 1960 . literature: