Art ScannerThe most expensive Corot ever sold
The most expensive Corot ever sold is Venise, vue du Quai des Esclavons: $9.01 million at Christie's New York in 2018. Famous works such as Souvenir de Mortefontaine, The Woman with a Pearl and Hagar in the Wilderness are in public collections, so they are not for sale and have no price.
- Lived
- 1796–1875
- From
- French
- Movement
- Barbizon school · Realism
- Worked in
- Paris · Ville-d'Avray
Corot's famous works and their prices
The Bridge at Narni1826
Ville-d'Avray1867
Souvenir de Mortefontaine1864 · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale
The Woman with a Pearl1870 · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale
Hagar in the Wilderness1835 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNot for sale
Interrupted Readingc. 1870 · Art Institute of ChicagoNot for sale
Agostina1866 · National Gallery of Art, WashingtonNot for sale
Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld1861 · Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonNot for sale
Sibyllec. 1870 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNot for sale
A Morning. The Dance of the Nymphs1850
Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)1836 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNot for sale
The Forum Seen from the Farnese Gardens1826
The Cathedral of Chartres1830 (reworked 1872) · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale
The Gust of Wind (Le Coup de vent)1871
A View near Volterra1838 · National Gallery of Art, WashingtonNot for sale
Marietta (The Roman Odalisque)1843 · Petit Palais, ParisNot for sale
“Not for sale” means a public collection holds the work. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.
Corot next to other artists
Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research.
Bars are to scale within this list. Source for Corot's record: hyperallergic.com.
About Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French landscape painter who bridged the Neoclassical tradition and Impressionism. His silvery, atmospheric views and poetic "souvenirs" of remembered places softened landscape into mood, while his quiet figure studies were prized only later. Generous and widely imitated, he influenced the Barbizon painters and the Impressionists. He died in 1875.
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Questions
What is the most expensive Corot ever sold?
Venise, vue du Quai des Esclavons, which sold for $9.01 million at Christie's New York in 2018. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.
How much is a Corot painting worth?
It depends on the work. The highest documented sale is $9.01 million for Venise, vue du Quai des Esclavons. Works in public collections are not for sale.
Where can I see Corot's paintings?
Among the works here: the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Who was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot?
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875). French landscape painter who bridged the Neoclassical tradition and Impressionism. His silvery, atmospheric views and poetic "souvenirs" of remembered places softened landscape into mood, while his quiet figure studies were prized only later. Generous and widely imitated, he influenced the Barbizon painters and the Impressionists. He died in 1875.
Other artists
- Leonardo da Vinci $450.3 million
- Gustav Klimt $236.4 million
- Rembrandt van Rijn $198.9 million
- Georges Seurat $149.2 million
- Paul Cézanne $137.8 million
- Edvard Munch $119.9 million
- Vincent van Gogh $117.2 million
- Claude Monet $110.7 million
- Paul Gauguin $105.7 million
- Sandro Botticelli $92.2 million
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir $78.1 million
- Peter Paul Rubens $76.7 million
- Édouard Manet $65.1 million
- Gustave Caillebotte $53 million
- Raphael $47.9 million
- J. M. W. Turner $47.4 million
- Henri Rousseau $43.5 million
- Edgar Degas $41.6 million
- John Constable $35.2 million
- Camille Pissarro $32.1 million
- Johannes Vermeer $30.1 million
- Michelangelo $27.2 million
- John Singer Sargent $23.5 million
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec $22.4 million
- Diego Velázquez $17 million
- Francisco Goya $16.4 million
- El Greco $14 million
- Eugène Delacroix $9.88 million
- John William Waterhouse $9 million
- Mary Cassatt $7.49 million
- Jacques-Louis David $7.21 million
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