JUNE 12–OCTOBER 2, 2011
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All works are by Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
Paintings
Two Women Chatting by the Sea, Saint Thomas, 1856
Oil on canvas, 10 7/8 x 16 1/8 in. (27.7 x 41 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.30
Donkey Ride at La Roche-Guyon, ca. 1865
Oil on canvas, 13 13/16 x 20 3/8 in. (35 x 51.7 cm)
Collection of Sir Tim Rice
Jeanne Pissarro, Called Minette, Sitting in the Garden, Pontoise, ca. 1872
Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
Private collection
Minette, ca. 1872
Oil on canvas, 18 1/16 x 14 in. (46 x 35 cm)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1958.144
Self-Portrait, 1873
Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 5/16 in. (56 x 46.5 cm)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of Paul-Émile Pissarro, 1930, RF 2837
Harvesting Potatoes, Pontoise, 1874
Oil on canvas, 13 x 16 1/8 in. (33 x 41 cm)
Private collection
Jeanne Holding a Fan, ca. 1874
Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 1/4 in. (56 x 46.5 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.2
The Maidservant, 1875
Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 71.530
Child with Drum, 1877
Oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm)
Collection of Diane B. Wilsey
Mme Pissarro Sewing beside a Window, ca. 1877
Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. (54 x 45 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1951.225.3
Portrait of Eugène Murer, 1878
Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 21 3/8 in. (64.4 x 54.3 cm) (oval)
Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts. The James Philip Gray Collection, 52.01
Père Melon Resting, ca. 1879
Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65 cm)
Courtesy of Giraud Pissarro Segalot
Washerwoman, Study, 1880
Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (73 x 59.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956, 56.184.1
Apple-Picking, 1881
Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Klaas H. Hummel
Peasant Woman Gathering Grass, 1881
Oil on canvas, 45 11/16 x 35 7/16 in. (116 x 90 cm)
Private collection, United States
Peasants Resting, 1881
Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 3/4 in. (81 x 65 cm)
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment. Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1935.6
Portrait of Félix Pissarro, 1881
Oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (55.2 x 46.4 cm)
Tate: Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist’s son, 1944, N05574
Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Café au Lait, 1881
Oil on canvas, 25 11/16 x 21 9/16 in. (65.3 x 54.8 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.433
The Harvest, 1882
Tempera on canvas, 27 11/16 x 49 9/16 in. (70.3 x 126 cm)
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Donated by the heirs of Mr. Kojiro Matsukata, P.1984-3
In the Garden at Pontoise: A Young Woman Washing Dishes, 1882
Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 25 11/16 in. (81.9 x 65.3 cm)
The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Acquired with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, 1947, PD.53-1947
The Little Country Maid, 1882
Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 7/8 in. (63.5 x 53 cm)
Tate: Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist’s son, 1944, N05575
Peasant Woman Lying in the Grass, Pontoise, 1882
Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 30 3/4 in. (64.5 x 78 cm)
Kunsthalle Bremen—Der Kunstverein in Bremen, 960-1967/8
Peasant Women Weeding, Pontoise, 1882
Oil on canvas, 24 13/16 x 30 5/16 in. (63 x 77 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland
Woman and Child at the Well, 1882
Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 26 1/8 in. (81.5 x 66.4 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.436
Horse Market, Saint-Martin Fair, Pontoise, 1883
Tempera on fine canvas, 6 5/16 x 11 5/8 in. (16 x 29.5 cm)
Private collection, France
The Pork Butcher, 1883
Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 21 3/8 in. (65.1 x 54.3 cm)
Tate: Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist’s son, 1944, N05576
The Gardener—Old Peasant with Cabbage, 1883–1895
Oil on canvas, 32 1/16 x 25 9/16 in. (81.5 x 65 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1994.59.6
Apple-Picking, 1886
Oil on canvas, 49 1/2 x 50 1/8 in. (125.8 x 127.4 cm)
Ohara Museum of Art, 1008
Apple Harvest, 1888
Oil on canvas, 24 x 29 1/8 in. (61 x 74 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art. Munger Fund, 1955.17.M
Haymakers, Evening, Éragny, 1893
Oil on canvas, 21 3/8 x 25 3/4 in. (54 x 65 cm)
Joslyn Art Museum. Endowment Fund Purchase, JAM1946.28
Portrait of Félix Reading, 1893
Oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Private collection
Market at Pontoise, 1895
Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (46.3 x 38.4 cm)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: The William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 33-150
Woman, Called “La Rosa,” Pulling up Her Stocking, 1895
Oil on canvas, 15 x 18 1/2 in. (38.1 x 47 cm)
The Tia Collection
Paul-Émile Pissarro Painting (sketch), 1898
Oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (55.2 x 46.4 cm)
Courtesy of Giraud Pissarro Segalot
Self-Portrait, ca. 1898
Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 12 in. (53 x 30.5 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art. The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, 1985.R.44
Jeanne Pissarro, Called Cocotte, Reading, 1899
Oil on canvas, 22 x 26 3/8 in. (56 x 67 cm)
Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty
Portrait of Paul-Émile Pissarro, 1899
Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm)
Collection of Joel and Carol Honigberg, Chicago
Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro Reading, ca. 1899
Oil on canvas, 7 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (18.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection of Cheryl A. Chase and Stuart Bear
Self-Portrait, 1903
Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 13 1/8 in. (41 x 33.3 cm)
Tate: Presented by Lucien Pissarro, the artist’s son, 1931, N04592
Prints and Drawings (including Pastels, Watercolors, and Gouaches)
Nude, ca. 1855
Conté crayon and white chalk on blue laid paper, 23 5/8 x 17 11/16 in. (60 x 45 cm)
Collection of Joachim Pissarro
Portrait of Lucien Pissarro as a Young Boy, 1868–1870
Brush drawing in dark ink heightened with Chinese white on dark-green paper prepared with brown wash, 10 x 13 7/8 in. (25.4 x 35.2 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.64
Jeanne-Rachel Pissarro Seated at a Table, ca. 1872–1874
Watercolor over black chalk on off-white paper, 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.5 x 19.2 cm),
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1952, WA1952.6.97
Dead Child, 1874
Lithograph on off-white wove paper, Image: 8 9/16 x 10 11/16 in. (21.7 x 27.2 cm); sheet: 12 1/8 x 15 5/8 in. (30.8 x 39.7 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Celia and David Hilliard, 2007.652
Portrait of the Artist’s Son, Lucien, 1874
Lithograph on blued white wove paper, Image: 8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 28 cm); sheet: 9 5/16 x 11 13/16 in. (23.7 x 30 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, 1972.54
Portrait of Paul Cézanne, 1874
Etching on beige laid paper, Plate: 10 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (26.6 x 21.5 cm); sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 5/8 in. (44.5 x 34.6 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Henri M. Petiet, confirmed by his estate, 2001.704
Woman Selling Chestnuts, 1878
Drypoint on beige laid paper, Plate: 8 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (20.6 x 16.2 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 7/16 in. (29.9 x 21.5 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis, 60.1459
Nearly Whole-length Study of a Female Peasant with a Detailed Study of the Foreshortening of the Right Forearm and Hand Above, ca. 1879
Black chalk on pink paper prepared with a thin layer of Chinese white, 18 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (46.2 x 27.6 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.152
Study of a Female Peasant Cleaning a Saucepan, ca. 1879
Black chalk heightened in places with gouache on pink paper prepared with a thin layer of Chinese white, 18 3/8 x 12 3/8 in. (46.8 x 31.6 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.151
Peasant Woman Lying in the Grass, ca. 1880
Pastel on paper, 10 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (25.5 x 39.5 cm)
Courtesy of Giraud Pissarro Segalot
Bust-length Portrait of Madame Pissarro Seen in Three-Quarters Profile Facing Right, early 1880s
Copying pencil with clear wash on off-white paper, 8 1/8 x 5 in. (20.5 x 12.5 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.249
Five Studies of a Male Peasant Working, early 1880s
Black chalk on off-white paper, 9 x 6 13/16 in. (22.9 x 17.3 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.158
Study of a Female Figure Examining a Market Stall, early 1880s
Black chalk on off-white paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (21.5 x 16 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.232
Study of the Artist’s Mother with Her Maid, ca. 1880–1885
Charcoal on off-white paper, 11 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (28.4 x 21.9 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.202
Compositional Study of the Market at Pontoise, 1881
Black chalk and gray wash on off-white paper, 12 x 7.5 in. (30.4 x 19.3 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.173
Studies of a Male and Female Harvester (recto); Study of a Female Harvester with a Study of a Female Peasant Emptying a Wheelbarrow (verso), 1881
Gray wash over graphite; graphite heightened with gray wash on off-white paper, 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (14.9 x 20 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.166
Three Studies of a Male Harvester (recto); Four Studies of Male Harvesters (verso), 1881
Gray wash over graphite; graphite heightened with gray wash on off-white paper, 5 7/8 x 7 7/16 in. (14.9 x 18.9 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.165
Woman Seen from Behind; Three-Quarter Length, Head in Profile to Right, Arms in Front, Wearing an Apron, 1881
Black, blue, and white chalk on gray paper, 17 1/2 x 12 5/16 in. (44.5 x 31.3 cm)
The British Museum, London, 1920, 0712.3
Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Café au Lait, 1881
Black chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, 24 1/8 x 18 3/4 in. (61.3 x 47.5 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Regenstein Endowment Fund, 2010.540
Four Studies of a Male Peasant Flailing (recto); Three Studies of Male Harvesters (verso), ca. 1881
Charcoal on faded blue paper, 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 23 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.167
Study of Two Female Harvesters, 1881–1882
Black chalk on pink paper prepared with a thin layer of Chinese white, 16 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. (42.8 x 63.8 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1952, WA1952.6.169
Study of Harvesters Working in a Field near Pontoise, ca. 1881–1882
Brush drawing in gray wash on off-white squared paper printed in brown ink, 10 13/16 x 18 7/8 in. (27.5 x 47.8 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.168
The Marketplace, 1882
Gouache on paper, 31 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (80.6 x 64.8 cm)
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Private collection, L.1984.54.1
Portrait of Lucien Pissarro, 1882
Black chalk on off-white paper, 5 11/16 x 3 7/8 in. (14.5 x 9.8 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.206
Portrait of Madame Pissarro, 1882
Black chalk on off-white paper, 5 11/16 x 3 7/8 in. (14.5 x 9.8 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.205
Study of a Female Peasant Arranging Her Scarf, ca. 1882–1883
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in. (55 x 45 cm)
Courtesy of Giraud Pissarro Segalot
Portrait of Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, ca. 1883–1884
Black chalk on off-white paper, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (21.1 x 16.7 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Pissarro Family Gift, 1951, WA1952.6.203
Young Female Peasant Leaning against a Tree (The Shepherdess), ca. 1884
Chalk and watercolor on paper, 19 15/16 x 15 5/16 in. (50.6 x 39 cm)
The Whitworth Art Gallery. The University of Manchester
Poultry Market at Gisors, 1885
Gouache and black chalk on brown paper mounted on canvas, 32 3/8 x 32 3/8 in. (82.2 x 82.2 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of John T. Spaulding, 48.588
Young Woman Standing, Holding a Stick in Her Hands, or Peasant Woman in a Blue Apron; Study for Apple-Picking, ca. 1885
Pastel over charcoal sketch on cream laid paper, 24 1/8 x 18 1/2 in. (61.2 x 47 cm)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Kept in the Department of Graphic Arts, Musée du Louvre, RF 29537
Marketplace in Pontoise, 1886
Graphite and pen and black-gummed ink on buff wove paper, 6 5/8 x 5 in. (16.8 x 12.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975, 1975.1.679
Pig Market, Saint-Martin Fair—Pontoise, ca. 1886
Pen and ink on chine over traces of graphite, 6 7/8 x 5 in. (17.5 x 12.7 cm)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of Max Kaganovitch, 1970, kept in the Department of Graphic Arts, Musée du Louvre, RF 36502
Tending Cattle, Éragny, 1887
Gouache on paper, 21 1/4 x 25 9/16 in. (54 x 65 cm)
Private collection
The Gisors Market, 1887
Black ink, gouache, and watercolor heightened with lead white on paper, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (31 x 24 cm)
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Gift of Howard D. and Babette L. Sirak, the Donors to the Campaign for Enduring Excellence, and the Derby Fund, 1991.001.051
The Market at Gisors, 1887
Watercolor on cream paper, 12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in. (31.4 x 24 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. M. and M. Karolik Fund, 1973.144
Picking Peas, 1887
Gouache on paper, 20 7/16 x 24 13/16 in. (52 x 63 cm)
Private collection
The Maid Shopping, 1888
Etching and drypoint printed in brown-black on off-white wove paper, Plate: 7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in. (19 x 13.2 cm); sheet: 7 13/16 x 5 1/2 in. (19.8 x 14 cm)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1962.90
The Maid Shopping, 1888
Drypoint on beige laid paper, Plate: 7 13/16 x 5 7/16 in. (19.8 x 13.8 cm); sheet: 11 x 9 in. (28 x 22.8 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wick, 61.1179
Grandmother (The Artist’s Mother), 1889
Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper, Plate: 6 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (17.1 x 25.7 cm); sheet: 7 15/16 x 12 1/4 in. (20.1 x 31.1 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis, 62.482
Turpitudes sociales, 1889–1890
Thirty pen and brown ink over graphite drawings on paper pasted in an album, Album: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (31 x 24 cm)
Collection of Jean Bonna, Geneva
Portrait of the Artist, ca. 1890
Etching on beige laid paper, Plate: 7 3/16 x 6 7/8 in. (18.3 x 17.4 cm); sheet: 13 7/16 x 9 13/16 in. (34.2 x 25 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lee M. Friedman Fund, 60.249
Full-length Standing Nude of a Woman, from Behind, 1890s
Pastel on pink paper, 18 13/16 x 9 9/16 in. (47.5 x 24.3 cm)
The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, PD.51-1947
The Marketplace, Gisors, 1891
Gouache over traces of charcoal on fabric mounted to thin cardboard, 14 x 10 1/4 in. (35.6 x 26 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963, 1963-181-55
Peasants and Peasant Woman Arranging Her Scarf, 1891
Gouache on paper, 11 7/8 x 22 7/8 in. (30 x 58 cm)
Courtesy of Giraud Pissarro Segalot
Poultry Market at Gisors, 1891
Etching on cream laid paper, Plate: 9 13/16 x 7 3/8 in. (25 x 18.8 cm); sheet: 12 5/8 x 8 in. (32.1 x 20.3 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lee M. Friedman Fund, 1981.135
The Market at Gisors, Rue Cappeville, ca. 1894
Etching printed in grayish black, red, blue, and yellow on ivory laid paper, Plate: 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (20 x 14 cm); sheet: 10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in. (27.1 x 19.9 cm)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1962.93
The Market at Pontoise, ca. 1895
Lithograph on ivory chine collé on ivory laid paper, Image: 11 7/8 x 8 11/16 in. (30.1 x 22.1 cm); sheet: 17 11/16 x 12 5/16 in. (44.8 x 31.2 cm)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1962.95
Two Studies of a Girl, ca. 1895
Black chalk and pastel on pink paper, 18 3/4 x 24 5/16 in (47.6 x 61.8 cm)
Amgueddfa Cymru—National Museum Wales, NMWA 1697
Young Man Writing, Portrait of Rodo; Paul-Émile Pissarro; ca. 1895
Lithograph on wove paper, Image: 4 3/4 x 4 5/8 in. (12.1 x 11.7 cm) and 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (9.5 x 11.4 cm); sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. (35.9 x 26.2 cm)
Collection of Barbara Stern Shapiro
The Market at Gisors (rue Cappeville), mid-1890s
Etching and drypoint, colored with crayon on white paper, Plate: 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (19.8 x 14.1 cm); sheet: 11 x 8 1/18 in. (27.8 x 20.5 cm)
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Presented by Miss Orovida Pissarro, 1953, WA1953.88.1
Three Studies of Women Dressing, ca. 1895–1900
Colored chalks on pink paper, 18 1/8 x 23 15/16 in. (46.1 x 60.8 cm)
The British Museum, London, 1920,0712.2
The Plow (frontispiece for Les temps nouveaux), 1898
Lithograph printed in olive green, red, blue, and yellow on ivory wove paper, Image: 8 13/16 x 5 7/8 in. (22.4 x 15 cm); sheet: 15 11/16 x 11 7/16 in. (39.8 x 29.1 cm)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1962.96
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