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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1796-1875
Moonlit Landscape
1862
Charcoal, stumped and scratched, with white chalk and overall fixative on light brown wove paper
18 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (473 x 338 mm)
Gift of Karen B. Cohen in Honor of Colin B. Bailey.
2022.323
Notes:
Corot exploited the potential of charcoalʼs velvety deep blackness to convey the vague forms of trees as the eye would perceive them after adjusting to the darkness of a nocturnal walk. Such sheets continue the Romantic taste for moonlit landscapes and prefigure the sense of mystery conjured by dark media in the hands of Symbolist Odilon Redon (1840-1916).
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Berlin, 29 October 1925, lot 226; Sale, Christie's, New York, 22 January 2003, lot 113; Jill Newhouse, New York; from whom purchased by Karen B. Cohen, 2003.
Associated names:
Cohen, Karen B., former owner.
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