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Circle of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) River landscape with a steam boat and fishing poles on the shore bears signature lower left oil on canvas, in a moulded gilt composition frame h:21 w: 39 cm Provenance: From the collection of Douglas Freshfield (1845-1934), called to the Bar 1870, Mountaineer, President of the Royal Geographical Society 1914-1917, of Freshfield Hall, Forest Row, Sussex, who is known to have bought four paintings by Corot on his travels in France, of which the present painting is one, and by descent Other Notes: One Corot was sold from Douglas Freshfield's estate in 1934 by Viscount Rothermere, passing to the 9th Earl of Jersey in 1945, A View of Dunkirk (No.175 at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts Exhibition in 1875), Alfred Robart, Catalogue Raisonne 1905, Vol. II, No.767, p.252, illus. p.253 (sold for £67,250).