La Rochelle - un coin de la cour de la commanderie

Name: JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
Brand: La Rochelle - un coin de la cour de la commanderie
Price: 48000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 60,000

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USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

Closed: 16 Oct 2020

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JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)

La Rochelle - un coin de la cour de la commanderie

Price Realised USD 60,000

Closed: 16 Oct 2020

Price Realised USD 60,000

Closed: 16 Oct 2020

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JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
La Rochelle - un coin de la cour de la commanderie
signed 'Corot' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8¹⁄₄ x 13³⁄₄ in. (21 x 34.9 cm.)
Painted in 1851.

with Paul Détrimont, Paris, by January 1872.
Anonymous sale; 5 May 1887, lot 17, as Souvenir d'Italie.
with Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
with Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, acquired directly from the above, 15 December 1898.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Cagnes-sur-Mer, acquired directly from the above, 22 December 1898.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1986, lot 86.
with Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva.
Acquired directly from the above by the late owners.

A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. II, pp. 232-233, no. 674, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

After the death of his mother in February, 1851, Corot traveled to Arras, Brittany and Normandy. In July, he went to La Rochelle with fellow painters Brizard and Philippe Comairas, lodging with a local merchant and painting frequently with his friends. After staying in La Rochelle for three weeks, the artist returned to Paris with one oil painting, and several oil studies, entirely painted on-site. This group of La Rochelle images has been largely regarded as the most Impressionistic of Corot's . In fact, the present work was once owned by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
In a letter to the art dealer René Gimpel in 1918, Renoir wrote: 'There you have the greatest genius of the century, the greatest landscape artist who ever lived. He was called a poet. What a misnomer! He was a naturalist. I have studied ceaselessly without ever being able to approach his art. I have often gone to the places where he painted: Venice, La Rochelle, ah, what trouble they've given me! It was his fault, Corot's, that I wanted to emulate him. The towers of La Rochelle - he got the color of the stones exactly, and I could never do it' (René Gimpel, Paris, 1963, entry for March 20th, 1918, p. 28).