Mlle Duris
Rudolph E. Brandt (until 1961)
Richard Green, London
Acquired from the above in 1992

Paris, Palais de l'École des Beaux Arts, May 1875, no. 153

Alfred Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. III, p. 186, no. 1748, illustrated p. 187

The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This work has been lined with a non-wax glue as an adhesive. The lush and heavy paint layer is in very good state. A handful of tiny retouches in the tree on the right have been added to reduce some cracking. Despite some original paint reading strongly under ultraviolet light, there are no other actual retouches within the picture, except possibly a couple of spots in the lower left sky. The work should be hung as is.
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Alfred Robaut refers to a replica of the present work which is now in the Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum.  Martin Dieterle has confirmed that the present work, painted 1865-70, is no. 1748 in the Robaut catalogue raisonne and therefore executed before the Hamburg replica.