Madame Vaugelère, Paris (circa 1869)
Tempelaere, Paris (circa 1870)
Tedesco, Paris (1885) 
Bernheim Jeune, Paris (1901) 
Acquired from the above (by 1985 and sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 9, 2014, lot 3, illustrated) 
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1965, vol. II, p. 226, no. 657, illustrated p. 227 (as Canal avec une église a l’horizon (Environs de Moret))

The paper has been laid down on canvas. There is minor surface dirt and two small pinpoints of studio accretion in the river at lower right. Under UV: fine lines of retouching are visible in the upper corners; and in the sky, mainly at the right, there are two broadly applied horizontal lines and one vertical line of inpainting. There are additional small, scattered dots of retouching along the upper and lower edges and in the lower right corner.
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While Robaut included the present work in his catalogue raisonné with reservations, in a letter of March 1994 Martin Dieterle affirms the work’s authenticity after having examined it in person.  The unusual nature of the “premier plan” of the present work may have confused Robaut and might be the result of Corot painting over an earlier esquisse of a student or colleague.  However, as Dieterle explains, the finished landscape is completely in the hand of the artist.