Hampton Court Green
1891
Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903
Artwork overview
-
Medium
oil on canvas
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
overall: 54.3 x 73 cm (21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
framed: 76.2 x 95.2 x 9.5 cm (30 x 37 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1970.17.53
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased from the artist 24 February 1892 by (Durand-Ruel, Paris);[1] sold 27 February 1911 to (Paul Cassirer, Berlin).[2] English private collection; purchased 1951 by (Marlborough Fine Art, London). (Arthur Tooth & Sons, London); sold 8 May 1952 to (Sam Salz, Inc., New York); sold September 1953 to Oscar Howalka; [3] (Sam Salz, Inc, New York); sold 9 June 1954 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[4] bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1 ]Durand-Ruel stock number 2346 provided in letter dated 12 July 1983 from Charles Durand-Ruel.
[2] See letter dated 21 October 2000 from Walter Feilchenfeldt.
[3] Provenance from English private colletion to Howalka per Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vols., Milan, Paris, and New York, 2005: III:no. 887.
[4] Dated receipt in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1892
Association pour l'Art, Anvers, 1892, no. 3
1961
French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, no. 38, repro
1965
C. Pissarro, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1965, no. 52, repro.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 33, repro
1984
Loan for display with permanent collection, Munch Museum, Oslo, 1984-1985.
1986
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 23, repro.
1989
Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 42, repro.
1992
From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 53, repro.
1994
Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1994-1995, no. 97, repro.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 152-153, color repro.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 46, repro.
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
Camille Pissarro, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1999-2000, no. 61.
2005
Camille Pissarro, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2005-2006, no. 58, repro.
2016
Ways of Pointillism: Seurat, Signac, Van Gogh, Albertina, Vienna, 2016-2017, no. 21, repro.
2017
The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile, 1870-1904, Tate Britain, London; Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 2017-2018, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2021
Camille Pissarro. The Studio of Modernism, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 2021 - 2022, no. 85, repro.
Bibliography
1939
Pissarro, Ludovic and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939: 1:186, no. 746; 2:pl. 155.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 272, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 508, no. 761, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 315, repro.
1993
Reid, Martin. Pissarro. London, 1993: 118, repro.
2005
Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of the Paintings, 3 vols., Milan, Paris and New York, 2005: III:no. 887, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: C. Pissarro.1891
Wikidata ID
Q20190255