JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT | DUNKERQUE. UNE PÊCHEUSE DE CREVETTES

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT
French
1796 - 1875
DUNKERQUE. UNE PÊCHEUSE DE CREVETTES

signed COROT (lower right)
oil on panel
10 by 17⅞ in.
25.4 by 45.3 cm

Condition Report:
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: Not examined out of the frame. This work is in lovely condition. The panel is flat and shows no reinforcements on the reverse. The paint layer is stable. There are a few spots of retouching along the extreme bottom edge, in the upper left corner, upper right and upper left. The landscape and figures are completely unretouched. The work should be hung as is.

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Provenance:
The artist (and sold, his sale, M. Boussaton, Paris, April 14, 1858, lot 14, as Environs de Dunkerque)

Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, Paris (acquired at the above sale and sold, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 14, 1893, lot 4, illustrated, as Les dunes de Dunkerque)

Hector Brame, Paris

Goupil & Cie., Paris, no. 23022 (acquired from the above, May 1893, as Les Dunes)

Arnold & Tripp, Paris (acquired from the above, October 1893)

Mrs. John Woodruff Simpson (née Seney), New York (by 1942)

Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired in 1944)

Sale: Christie's, New York, October 24, 1990, lot 33, illustrated

Acquired in 2009