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Camille Pissarro (artist) French, 1830 - 1903 The Fence, 1872 oil on canvas Overall: 37.8 x 45.7 cm (14 7/8 x 18 in.) framed: 54.3 x 63.2 x 5 cm (21 3/8 x 24 7/8 x 1 15/16 in.) Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1985.64.31 |
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Provenance
(sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 February 1878, no. 59, as La Haie); purchased by Georges de Bellio [1828-1894];[1] by inheritance to his daughter, Mme Ernest Donop de Monchy [née Victorine de Bellio, b. 1863] until at least 1937. (Paul Rosenberg et Cie., Paris) and (César de Hauke, Paris), by 1939.[2] Arthur Goldsmith, Paris; sold1955 to (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich);[3] sold that same year to (Georges Seligmann, New York); sold 1955 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] The painting is no. 104 in the inventory of the de Bellio collection, published by Remus Niculescu in Paragone 249 (November 1970): 68.
[2] According to Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro. Son Art--Son Oeuvre, 2 vols., San Francisco, 1989 (reprint of 1939 edition): no. 135.
[3]Goldsmith and Feilchenfeldt per Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. II, no. 231.
Associated Names
- Bellio, Georges de, Dr.
- Donop de Monchy, Ernest, Mme
- Drouot, Hôtel
- Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Dr.
- Goldsmith, Arthur
- Hauke, César Mange de
- Mellon, Paul, Mr.
- Rosenberg & Co., Paul P.
- Seligmann, Georges
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