The Fence
1872
Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 87
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
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.) -
Accession
1985.64.31
Artwork history & notes
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, 1863-1958] until at least 1937. (Paul Rosenberg et Cie., Paris) and (César de Hauke, Paris), by 1939.[2] Arthur Goldsmith, Paris; sold 1955 to (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich);[3] sold that same year to (Georges Seligmann, Inc., New York); sold 1955 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; 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, 3 vols., Milan, Paris, and New York, 2005: 2:no. 231.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1930, no. 17.
1956
Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1956, no. 90, repro.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 26, repro.
1995
Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals, Hayward Gallery, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995-1996, no. 67, repro.
2005
Camille Pissarro, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2005-2006, no. 10, repro.
2013
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 3.
Bibliography
1939
Pissarro, Ludovic and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939:1:98, no. 135, as La Haie, Paysage D'Automne; 2:pl. 27.
1970
Niculescu, Remus. "Georges de Bellio, l'ami des Impressionnistes (I)." Paragone 247 (September 1970): 54.
Niculescu, Remus. "Georges de Bellio, l'ami des Impressionnistes (II)." Paragone 249 (November 1970): 68, no. 104
2005
Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of the Paintings, 3 vols., Milan, Paris and New York, 2005: II:no. 231, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: C. Pissarro. 1872
Wikidata ID
Q20188748