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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

12¹?? x 8??? in. (31.8 x 22.6 cm.)

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Provenance:

JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (FRENCH, 1796-1875) Un coin de rivière avec maison et peupliers signed 'COROT' (lower left) oil on canvas 121?2 x 87?8 in. (31.8 x 22.6 cm.) Painted circa 1850-55. James Staats Forbes, London, by 1891. (possibly) Mr. von Schwabach, Berlin. with Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York. with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired directly from the above, 3 October 1953. Henry Robinson (1898-1967), and Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), Connecticut, acquired directly from the above, March 1955. The Armand Hammer Foundation. San Diego Museum of Art, gifted by the above, 1973. Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 2020, lot 15. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. II, pp. 226-227, no. 654, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions). J. D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 62. M. E. Petersen, J. Dunn ed., San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 1993, p. 105. Art Quarterly, Spring 1976, p. 101-112, illustrated, as A Bend in the River with House and Poplars. (possibly) Brighton, Public Art Galleries, Exhibition of Pictures from the Collection of the late J. Staats Forbes. 7 July-August 1908, no. 87, as Bend of River. Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, The Armand Hammer Collection, 2 October-30 December 1969, no. 11, illustrated, as A Bend in the River with Houses and Poplars.