JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
French, 1796–1875
Noisy-le-Grand, un Moulin
Signed COROT
Oil on panel
8¼ x 10¼ inches (21 x 26 cm)
Framed: 17½ x 19½ inches (44.5 x 49.5 cm)
Painted in 1866. Corot visited his friend Bochard in Noisy-le-Grand, Seine-et-Oise during the summer of 1866 and painted five landscapes there [Robaut, 1905, vol. III, nos. 1365-1369].
The first owner of this painting, the artist André Julien Prévost, was a devoted student and friend of the artist. A sale of 37 works by Corot from Prévost's collection was held at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, on May 24, 1887.
Provenance
André Julien Prévost, Paris, circa 1873
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Sale, Christie's, New York, May 6, 1999, lot 149, illustrated
Private Collection, Massachusetts (acquired from the above, to the present)
Literature
Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. III, pp. 42-3, no. 1366, illustrated
$42,500