LOT 0156 MATTHEW RIDLEY CORBET (BRITISH 1850-1902) ENTRANCE TO
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MATTHEW RIDLEY CORBET (BRITISH 1850-1902) ENTRANCE TO THE SMALLER TEMPLE AT MEDINET HABOO (SIC) Signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'December 1878' verso, oil on canvas laid down on board (18cm x 25.5cm (7in x 10.5in)) Note: This is the only known architectural study painted by Corbet during his voyage up the Nile in the winter of 1878-9, and perhaps entered the collection of Vereker and Lilian Hamilton, Corbet’s fellow students at the Slade, as a token of friendship. As another study produced in the same month and also painted on canvas which was then laid on board, Desert Afternoon (Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris), it exemplifies Corbet’s practice of dating his open-air pieces. As his subject the artist unconventionally chose a gateway leading toward the Pavilion of Rameses III at Medinet Habu in Luxor, rather than to the site’s main temple. Having recently stayed with Frederic Leighton in Perugia, Corbet’s style displays his influence in the dynamic, imploding composition with a distant glimpse of the blue sky as well as in the characteristic brushwork which he might have seen in the sketches that Leighton himself painted on the Nile in 1868.
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