Name: JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
Brand: Vapeurs matinales à Mortefontaine
Price: 80000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
Vapeurs matinales à Mortefontaine
signed ‘COROT’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
17¹⁄₂ x 30 in. (44.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1860-1870.

Alfred Saucède, Paris.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 February 1879, lot 7, as Le Matin.
George Lutz, Paris, acquired at the above sale.
His sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 26-27 May 1902, lot 32, as Le Matin.
Private collection, Marseille, by 1909.
By descent to the present owners.

A. Wolff, Cent Chefs-d’Œuvre des collections parisiennes, Paris, 12 June 1883, p. 83, no. 11, illustrated, as Le Matin.
P. Cornu, ed., Corot, Paris, 1889, p. 127.
A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. III, p. 160, no. 1669, illustrated.
G. Koch, Kunstwerke und Bücher am Markte, Esslingen am Neckar, 1915, p. 478.
G. Bazin, 'Corot et son Œuvre,' L'Amour de l'art, Paris, January 1936, p. 67, fig. 80, illustrated.
M. Delaroche-Vernet, Corot, exh. cat., Paris, 1936, p. 38.
J. Selz, La vie et l'œuvre de Camille Corot, Paris, 1988, pp. 230-231, illustrated.
L. Thornton, La femme dans la peinture orientaliste, Paris, 1993, p. 117.
G. Tinterow, M. Pantazzi and V. Pomarède, Corot, exh. cat., New York, 1996, pp. 301, footnote 9, p. 303.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Cent Chefs-d’Œuvre des collections parisiennes, June-July 1883, number unknown.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition d’une collection particulière, 19 November-December 1885, p. 7, no. 19, as Le Matin.
Paris, Palais Galliera, Centenaire de Corot, May-June 1895, no. 99, as Le Matin.
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Corot, 12 May-12 June 1971, p. 70, no. 52, illustrated.

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