Alfred Robaut, Paris
Durand-Ruel, Paris (as of 1901)
Sale: Enghien, Hôtel des Ventes, Vente Anonyme, June 13, 1982, lot 52
Private collection (since 1984)

London, Stoppenbach and Delestre, French 19th and 20th Century Paintings, June 21 - August 3, 1984, no. 1

Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot: catalogue raisonné et illustré, vol. II, Paris, 1905, pp. 64-5, no. 189, illustrated
P. Bédarida, "I 'canti della sirena' e l'immagine di Napoli nella pittura francese fino al 1830," Napoli nella veduta europea dal Quattrocento all'Ottocento, exh. cat., Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, 1990, p. 58, 65, illustrated
Claire Lebeau and Martin Dieterle, Corot: la lumière des villes, Paris, 1996, pp. 22-3, illustrated
Corot, exh.cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1996-1997, cited under no. 43 and note 4, pp. 157-8
Corot, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996-1997, cited p. 106

The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This work on paper has been mounted onto wooden panel. The panel is stable and the paper is well adhered. There is slight unevenness to the panel, but this is certainly not disturbing or unattractive. The painting is quite highly varnished. Corot painted very rapidly and thinly in places, but the condition is still very good. There seem to be only a few tiny spots of retouching in the sky, and there do not appear to be hardly any in the landscape or through the town itself. The work can certainly hung as is, although the varnish could perhaps be re-examined.
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