The Children

1880

Camille Pissarro

Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    opaque watercolor with graphite on canvas mounted on board

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.21 × 41.91 cm (11 1/2 × 16 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.18.41

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pissarro and Venturi 1939, no. 1334

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

James P. Silo, New York; to Hugo Reisinger, New York, 1908; (sale, American Art Association, The Plaza Hotel, New York, 20 January 1916, no. 46). Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia, by 1966; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1881

  • 6me Exposition de Peinture (6th Impressionist Exhibition). 35, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, p. 9, no. 83 (as "Enfants dessinant).

Bibliography

1939

  • Pissarro, Ludovic, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939, vol. 1: 266, no. 1334, as Enfants à Table; 2: pl. 261.

1986

  • Moffett, Charles S., et al. The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. Exh. cat., The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and National Gallery of Art, Washington. San Francisco, 1986, p. 355 (repro. of pages from the catalogue of the 6th Impressionist Exhibition).

Inscriptions

lower left in gouache: C. Pissarro. 80

Wikidata ID

Q64537836

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