JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (Paris, 1796 – Paris, 1875) - Le Fermier de Pithiviers (c.1840)

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  Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 35 x 46 cm. Signed in the lower right corner. A certificate from the Brame & Lorenceau Gallery is included. In the center of an arid plain stands a horseman, his back to the viewer. Ahead of him, a cart loaded with hay moves away, preceded by two other horsemen who continue along the road. In the background, the horizon line forms a bluish band that separates the land from the sky, which occupies approximately two-thirds of the composition. The sky is rendered in a whitish tone, upon which gray clouds accumulate, becoming denser as they rise. In the upper right, two windmills rise atop a limestone rock formation. The peasant on horseback, positioned in the foreground and visually anchored to the ground by the shadow he casts, draws the viewer into the scene. Its oblique position, accentuated by the path, draws the eye first to the cart and the riders accompanying it, and finally to the background of the landscape, where the horizon line darkens slightly and the silhouette of a bell tower, possibly that of Pithiviers, can be distinguished. To the right, the windmills appear partially absorbed by the atmosphere of the sky. The composition presents a landscape of open and austere resonances, reminiscent of certain Orientalist landscapes that circulated in the Parisian art scene of the mid-19th century, such as those of Eugène Fromentin, works that Corot could have encountered through the Salon. The atmospheric treatment, the vastness of the sky, and the serene organization of space fully correspond to the landscape language developed by Corot around the 1840s, when the artist was consolidating a style characterized by tonal harmony, compositional clarity, and the poetic evocation of the landscape. Bibliography: Alfred Robaut, L'œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, 1905, vol. II, pp. 222–223, no. 631, reproduced. Lot in international warehouse (outside the EU). For shipments to the European Union, import duties and/or ...
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