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David learning to sail on the Jack Tar in Maine leaning out of the starboard side and holding fast to a rope as the boom swings over his head.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Venise, vue du Quai des Esclavons, 1845. Oil on canvas. 187⁄8 x 321⁄4 in (48 x 82 cm). Offered in The Collection of David and Peggy
Rockefeller: 19th & 20th Century Art, Evening Sale on 8 May 2018 at Christie’s New York. Purchased in 1957 from the Wildenstein & Co. gallery in New York.
This painting probably conjured memories for David of his trips to Venice, which he visited with friends in 1938 after finishing his postgraduate studies.
Then, in 1971, while visiting Australia with Peggy, David spotted Corot’s original sketch for this work in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. ‘Perhaps we made the
curator a little envious by telling him that we have the oil painting,’ he wrote years later. ‘In any event, we sent him a photograph of our painting.’