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Lot 65*

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(French, 1796-1875)
Cour de ferme dans le Limousin

10 July 2013, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

Cour de ferme dans le Limousin
signed 'COROT' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24.6 x 32.5cm (9 11/16 x 12 13/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
with Thomas Colville Fine Art Ltd., New Haven, CT
Private collection, USA, since 2004

LITERATURE:
Jean Dieterle, Corot: troisième supplément à l'œuvre de Corot par A. Robaut et Moreau-Nélaton, Éditions Floury, Quatre Chemins-Éditart, Paris, 1974, no.14

The present lot was painted in the late 1840s and demonstrates Corot's plein air technique with its heavy use of black in the shadows and subtle palette. Corot repeatedly returned to the subject of the farmyard with figures working in the foreground and works such as Cour d'une boulangerie près de Paris, (circa 1865-1870, Paris, Musée d'Orsay) are similar in their focus on the house which fills the composition and the figure and chickens in the foreground. The robust direct handling belongs more to Corot's early innovations in plein air painting than the later developments which were influenced by photography and took on a more silvery tone with a narrow range of colour.

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