A copy of the painting
According to Robaut, Corot lent NG 3237 to his friend and pupil Edouard Brandon, who probably copied it. No such painting was included in the Brandon sales of 19 March 1885 and 13–14 December 1897. A version of NG 3237 was lent by Ernest May’s son, Jacques Ernest May (1885–1970) to the following exhibitions: Corot, Paysages de France et Figures, Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, June-July 1930, no. 8, and Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, Royal Academy, London, 1932, no. 306.
In both cases its Robaut number and provenance were confused with that of NG 3237. When it was included in the Galerie Rosenberg exhibition a reproduction was published in L’Amour de l’Art, 1930, p. 331. An examination of the published photograph reveals it to be a copy of NG 3237. It follows NG 3237 closely, apart from a few details, but is much more deliberately and carefully painted, with harsher and more insistent outlines to the architecture. The foliage of tree to the right is carefully painted, unlike that of NG 3237, where it is sketched in with a dry brush. It is possible that it is the copy by Brandon16.