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28 . Landscape with Four Trees , c. 1860–70

Black chalk on wove paper 6 ¾ × 10 ½ inches ( 17 . 1 × 26 . 7 cm) Signed lower left

Inscribed on verso label in ink: Max Liebermann/ Corot/ no 1060/ Versicherungssumme M 500 (“insurance value 500 Mark”); second label numbered: 46 ; third label printed: Encadrements Artistiques/ Montages de gravures/pour Amateurs/ ADAM-DUPRE /119 BIS RUE FONTAINE / PARIS (Ixe) ; inscribed in red crayon: 42.

provenance Max Liebermann, Germany; Shepherd Gallery and Jill Newhouse Gallery ( 2005 ).

Private Collection

The technique of this freely executed landscape is comparable to that of a drawing in the Louvre tentatively dated 1860–1870 , Group of Figures Among Trees ( Groupe de personnages parmi des arbres , RF 29944 ). The charcoal is applied with a light, quick hand, whose supple movements are traced in the contours of foliage and clouds, and in the graceful, animated tree trunks.

This drawing was part of the extensive collection of Barbizon and Impressionist art acquired by the German landscape painter Max Liebermann ( 1847–1935 ).

Group of Figures Among Trees , Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 29944

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