Etude à Pontoise.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).
Oil on canvas.
Signed with initials “C.P.” lower right.
Circa 1878.
22 x 18 ¼ inches.
Condition:
Unlined canvas on the original stretcher.
The canvas stamp is that of Latouche, 34 Rue Lafayette, Paris. Louis Latouche was a well known colour merchant and supplier of canvas to the Impressionists and Pissarro is known to have purchased materials there. Latouche moved to 34 Rue Lafayette after 1870. It was at Latouche in 1863 that Pissarro, Sisley, Bazille and Renoir organised a petition demanding the establishment of a Salon des Refusés.
Provenance:
Mme Marie Martin.
Anon sale, Palais Gallièra, Paris, 16th March 1973, lot 62.
Anon sale, Christie’s, New York, 5th May 2004, lot 235.
Exhibited:
Geneva, Musée Rath, date unknown, no. 107.
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1974: Naissance de L’Impressionisme, May-September 1974, no. 115.
Rouen, Salon d’Art Contemporain, Portrait d’ une collection, October 1991.
Literature:
L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. 1, p. 146, no.462 (illustrated, vol. 11, pl. 94).
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, the catalogue raisonné prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute, 2006. Illustrated.
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