Collection Emile Duhousset (in 1877)
Jaen Dieterle, Paris (in 1935)
Wildenstein, London (in 1948)
Mr. Robert W. Purcell, New York
Thence by descent through the family

Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol II, p. 280, no. 872, illustrated p. 281

This painting has been lined and recently cleaned. Under UV, restorations to frame abrasion fluoresces, as well as two small dots in the sky.
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Painted in 1850-55 in La Rochelle. For more information on Robert W. Purcell please see lot 4.