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Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
French, 1830 - 1903
Hameau aux Environs de Pontoise, 1872
Oil on canvas
21¼ x 28¾ inches / 54 x 73 cm
Signed and dated lower left: C. Pissarro 1872
Camille Pissarro is recognised as one
of the forefathers of the Impressionist
movement. This painting, with its
resplendent array of greens and tans,
reveals the artist’s immense debt
to the style of Barbizon landscape
painter Camille Corot, under whose
tutelage Pissarro had learnt the value
of tonal breadth.
A freshness of execution, discernible
through visible brushstrokes and
a loosely-worked feel, testifies to
the powerful senses of realism and
immediacy conferred by plein-air
painting.
Pissarro’s evocative series of
views portraying Pontoise and its
surroundings is well-represented
in public collections around the
world, with examples housed in the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection
(New York), the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York), the State
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg)
and the National Gallery (London).
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, Paris, 21 October 1872 (purchased from the artist)
Erwin Davis, New York, 2 May 1888
Durand-Ruel, Paris, 14 April 1899 (repurchased from the above)
Josef Stransky, New York, 30 October 1920
Mrs Robert C. Swayze, New York, Torrington (Conn.), circa 1945
French Institute, New York
Wildenstein, 1951 (purchased from the above)
Private collection, Athens, 1956 (purchased from the above)
Thence by descent
Exhibited
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Pissarro, 3-17 February 1917
New York, Wildenstein, Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art,
24 October-24 November 1945, no. 5, illustrated p. 19
Paris, Musée de L’Orangerie, Van Gogh et les Peintres d’Auvers-sur-Oise
26 November 1954-28 February 1955, no. 89, illustrated pl. XI
Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Paintings by Camille Pissarro,
French Impressionist, 9-31 January 1960
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings from Private
Collections, summer 1962
Literature
Douglas Cooper, The Painters of Auvers-sur-Oise, The Burlington Magazine,
April 1955, pp. 104, 106
Ludovico Rodo Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro. Son ArtSon Oeuvre, Paris, 1939, no. 165
Richard Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape, London,
1990, p. 158
Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, London, 1993, p. 115, col. fig. 128
p. 127
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Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts,Pissarro, Critical
Catalogue of Paintings, Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 2005, vol II, no. 252, p.206