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ID number:  BIRBI-40.3
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Artist / Maker:  attributed to Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875)
Title / Object name:  Wooded landscape with a pond
Object type:  Painting
Culture:  French
Date made:  about 1835/6
Materials:  Oil on canvas
Measurements:  46.4 x 74.1 cm unframed; 72.5 x 99.2 x 3.6 framed
Provenance:  Galerie Georges Petit; collection of Count Pecci-Blunt; A. Tooth and Sons; purchased by the Barber Institute in 1940 for £3,000.
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This landscape possibly shows a scene at Le Martinet, near Montpellier in South France. Corot sketched there in 1836 and this studio work resembles a pencil drawing dated to that year. The painting is signed and was bought as a genuine Corot, but the attribution has been questioned because of its uneven quality. On balance, we believe that the work is of a high standard and dates from the 1830s, though perhaps not by Corot himself. The signature may therefore be false, added later in order to improve the work’s salability.

Inscriptions / Translations:  Incised signature I.r.: C COROT

Notes:  Exhibited: Tooth's Galleries, 'Anthology: French Pictures from Private Collections'; Royal Academy, 'Landscape in French Art', 1949 (no. 147)

2 Related Publications

Landscape in French Art
Royal Academy of Arts

1949
The Burlington Magazine
Bodkin, Thomas

1941
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