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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 18, 2018 | Christie's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 32 | $****** - ****** | Jésus et Saint-Jean (étude pour 'Le baptême du Christ') |
paintings
55.2 x 44.1 cm (21.73 x 17.36 in)
oil on canvas
The artist.
Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon (1831–1897).
M. Boucher, Ville d'Avray.
M. Pottier, acquired directly from the above, 1908.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 June 1950, lot 18.
with Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York, acquired at the above sale.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 1969.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Religious Art of the Western World, 23 March-25 May 1958, p. 24, illustrated, as The Baptism of Christ.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Corot and his Contemporaries, 8 May-21 June 1959, as The Baptism of Christ.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Corot (1796-1875), 6 October-13 November 1960, no. 60, illustrated, as Baptism of Christ.
London, Wildenstein & Co., Religious Themes in Painting from the 14th century Onwards, 16 March–5 May 1962, no. 49, illustrated.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Painter as Historian, 15 November–31 December 1962, pp. 11, 41, no. 14, illustrated.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy and London, National Gallery, Corot: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, August-November 1965, no. 50.
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Histoire de Corot et de ses œuvres, Paris, 1905, p. 109, fig. 98, illustrated (photograph taken before an early restoration campaign).
A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. II, pp. 172-173, no. 468, illustrated (photograph taken before an early restoration campaign).
C. Bernheim de Villiers, Corot, peintre de figures, Paris, 1930, no. 78, illustrated (photograph taken before an early restoration campaign).
G. Bazin, Corot, Paris, 1951, p. 77, as Étude pour le Baptême du Christ.
Comte Doria, 'Corot et le Baptême du Christ,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. XLIII, May-June 1954, pp. 329, 332, fig. 7c, illustrated, as Jésus et saint Jean-Baptiste.
Dallas Times-Herald, 30 April 1958, n.p.
G. H. Huntley, 'Complexity and Corot,' Art News, October 1960, pp. 35, 53, fig. 5, illustrated, as Baptism of Christ.
C. Volpe, 'Wildenstein,' Arte antica e moderna, No. 17, January-March 1962, p. XVII, illustrated, fig. 50, as Battesimo di Cristo.
G. Tinterow, M. Pantazzi, and V. Pomarède, Corot, exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 27 February-27 May 1996, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 21 June-22 September 1996, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 29 October 1996-19 January 1997, p. 206, illustrated.
C. P. Wistar, La Salle University Art Museum Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 74, illustrated, as Baptism of Christ.
oil on canvas
21 ¾ x 17 3/8 in. (55.2 x 44.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1844-1845.
