Camille Jean Baptiste Corot, 1796 Paris – 1875
PAYSANNE ASSISE À L'ÉTANG. UN VILLAGE AU LOIN
Oil on wood. Parquet flooring.
27.3 x 35.8 cm.
Signed "COROT" at lower right. Back label of a London painter, another old label.
In gilded baroque frame. Framed behind glass.

Expert's report by Martin Dieterle and Claire Lebeau, Paris, November 14, 2019, with reference number 7010 (available in original). The present painting will be included in the supplementary volume of the catalogue raisonné of Dieterle and Lebeau.

A pond reflecting the tonal play of light from the sky, overlooked by a tree from the left and partly shaded. Some yellow-orange blossoms enliven the reeds, a woman, who breaks through the brown variants with her corochrome red, sits on the left bank and seems to overlook the pond. On the horizon to the left, a few houses indicate a settlement - perhaps Ville-d'Avray, where Corot, for example, created the painting of the same name in 1865, which is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, or the one entitled "L'étang de Ville-d'Avray", which is kept in the Musee d'Orsay. Although the painting offered here is not dated, it can be dated - according to the expert opinion - to the first half of the 1860s.
Provenance:
Auction Henri Garnier, 03 December 1894, Paris, no. 14, acquired
there by: Boussod & Valadon, Paris, inventory number 23720.
Agnew & Sons, London.
Private collection, Austria. (1220321) (13)


Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,
1796 Paris - 1875
PAYSANNE ASSISE À L'ÉTANG. UN VILLAGE AU LOIN
Oil on panel. Parquetted.
27.3 x 35.8 cm.
Signed lower right "COROT". Label of a London paint manufacturer and another old label on the reverse.
In valid Baroque style frame with glass.

Enclosed an export report by Martin Dieterle and Claire Lebeau, Paris, 14 November 2019, with ref. no. 7010 The present painting is enclosed in the supplement of the catalogue raisonné by Dieterle and Lebeau.

Provenance:
Auction Henri Garnier, 3 December 1894, Paris, no. 14.
There purchased from: Boussod & Valadon, Paris, inv. no. 23720.
Agnew & Sons, London.
Private collection, Austria.