Camille Pissarro
French, 1830–1903
The Artist's Palette with a Landscape
c. 1878–80
Medium | oil on panel |
Dimensions | 9 9/16 x 13 11/16 in. (24.3 x 34.7 cm) Framed (plexi box): 13 x 17 x 3 1/4 in. (33 x 43.2 x 8.3 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.827 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | On View |
Image Caption
Camille Pissarro, The Artist's Palette with a Landscape, c. 1878–80, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.827
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956.
Geffroy, Gustave. Claude Monet, sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris: G. Cres & Cie. 1922.
Faber Birren.. "Modern Palettes and Techniques." History of Color in Painting.. New York: Reinhold.. 1965..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Richard Shiff.. Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.. 1984..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
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Janine Bailly-Herzberg, ed.. Correspondence de Camille Pissarro, 5: 1899-1903.. Paris: Ed. du Valhermeil.. 1991..
John Gage.. Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1993..
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
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Christopher Willard.. "Mixing It Up: Palettes.". 64:698.. American Artist.. (Sept. 2000):pp. 10-13..
Callen, Anthea. The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity. London: Yale University Press. 2000.
Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, Son Art, Son Oeuvre. 2 volumes. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939.
Maloon, Terence, et al. Camille Pissarro. Exhibition catalogue. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales; London: Thames & Hudson, 2005
Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue pf Paintings. Vol. I-III. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications. 2005.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
The artist, sold to Laplace; Laplace, Paris; Auguste Boulin, [Paris?] (until 1934, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 30 Nov. 1934);¹ [Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1934–35, sold to Clark, 9 Aug. 1935, as Paysans près d’une charette]; Robert Sterling Clark (1935–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Information from Durand-Ruel Archives. See correspondence of 24 Apr. 2001 in the Clark’s curatorial file.