Pencil on cream laid paper. 235x317 mm; 9x12 1/2 inches. With the artist's estate sale ink stamp (Lugt 461, lower left recto).
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
In 1825 to 1828, Corot made the trip to Italy considered so essential to the formation of a landscape artist, spending time in Rome and the Campagna, before travelling to Naples. In 1827, he sent his first Italian paintings to the Paris Salon: View at Narni (now in National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa) and Roman Campagna (now in the Kunsthaus, Zurich). Corot returned to Italy in 1834 and 1843. Serpentara is a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome.
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Corot drawings in preparation by Martin Dieterle, Claire Lebeaux and Jill Newhouse.
