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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot French
1796 - 1875
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Crepuscule sur les Marais Pontins
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17.375 x 23.875 inches, sight
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Paintings - Non-American |
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France |
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19th Century |
AFA Issue or
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August/September 2006 |
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), Crepuscule sur les Marais Pontins, 1850-55, Oil on canvas, unframed size 17-3/8 x 23-7/8, Signed Lower Left.
Painted at the height of Corot's critical acclaim (1850- 55), his poetic sense and his pervasive taste for abstraction were universally remarked. In Edmond About's words, typical of those used to describe Corot's later paintings, the creative process assumes an almost mystical dimension...
No artist has more style or can better communicate his ideas in a landscape. He transforms everything he touches, he appropriates everything he paints, he never copies, and, even when he works directly from nature, he invents...
Colors soften and melt; everything becomes fresh, young, and harmonious: he is the poet of landscape...
Provenance: Henri Hecht, Paris; J.P. Morgan, sale New York, March 8, 1886, no. 46; Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Marion Brown Grace, by whom given to; Lehigh University; Private Collection, Geneva, acquired from the above
Exhibited: Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition Reteospective de ableauxet dessins de Maitres modern, 1878, no.73, loaned by H. Hecht
Literature: A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Vol II, p. 360, no 1115, illustrated p. 361, vol., IV.
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