LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and gouache on paper

Measurements:

25.51 in. (64.80 cm.) (height) by 31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

stamped with the initials 'C.P.' (Lugt 613a; lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Camille Pissarro: Centenaire de la naissance de l’artiste, February - March 1930, no. 66. Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Pissarro et ses fils, November - December 1934, no. 10. New York, Beadleston Gallery, Inc., The Herbert J. & Adele Klapper Collection, May 2002, no. 20 (illustrated and detail illustrated on the frontispiece).

Literature:

C. Kunstler, Camille Pissarro, Paris, 1930, no. 11 (illustrated; dated '1883-1884'). C. Kunstler, 'Camille Pissarro' in Le Cahier, January 1930. C. Kunstler, 'Le Centenaire de Camille Pissarro' in L'Art vivant, 1 March 1930, p. 188 (illustrated). L.R. Pissarro & L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 1393, p. 274 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 272; dated 'circa 1884'). J. Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, New York, 1993, pp. 190-191 & 194 (illustrated p. 192, no. 222). J. Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, Cergy-Pontoise, 2003, vol. III, p. 219. R.R. Brettell, Pissarro's People, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2011, p. 213.

Provenance:

The artist's estate. Paul-Emile Pissarro, Paris, by descent from the above. Private collection, New York; sale, Christie’s, New York, 10 May 1989, lot 29. Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.