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Three landscape sketches

Maker

(artist)
1796-1875

Title

Three landscape sketches

Date of Production

3 October 1859

Medium

pen and brown ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 13.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4256

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

Word and image intermingle on this sheet, with Corot’s prominent signature at centre. He may have first signed his name to test the pen, as the ink is messy and uneven. The inscriptions on the left and lower edges inform us that these landscape sketches were executed at the house of Corot’s friend and biographer, Alfred Robaut, ‘after having dined well’, thus documenting a moment in the life of the artist, who felt compelled to doodle while in the company of friends.

Provenance

Alfred Strölin (Paris and Lausanne); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Reading Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/01/2017-04/06/2017

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, black pen and ink [signed by the artist]: "C. Corot"; left lower edge, black pen and ink: "le 3 xbre 1859 - par le Cher Mr Corot - a Douai, chez Alfred Robaut"; lower right edge, black pen and ink: "notons que c’était après bien dÎné". Verso, lower right corner, graphite: "#3"; upper left, graphite [very faint]: "On [?]" Mount (removed): Verso: lower left, graphite: "#3"

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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