Skip to Content
Home>Collection>The Bather
Inscription

lower left: C.Pissarro.95

Provenance

(Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris); by whom sold 1895 to Baron Tadamasa Hayashi [1853-1906], Tokyo; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 9 January 1913, no. 117); purchased by (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris); sold 29 October 1926 to (Josef Stransky). (Wildenstein & Co., London and New York); sold 1 March 1927 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1]Sale to Stransky per Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, 2005, III:no. 1063. Stransky often worked for Wildenstein and was likely their source of the painting.

[2]Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial records.

Exhibition History
1917
Paintings by Pissarro, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1917, no. 23
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1929
Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 35, repro.
1939
Pissarro, Ludovic and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939: 1:211, no. 937, as La Baigneuse; 2:pl. 189.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 104, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 104.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 92, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 270, repro.
1981
Lloyd, Christopher. Camille Pissarro. New York, 1981:121, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 508, no. 760, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 313, 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. 1063, repro.
Related Content
  • Sort by:
  • Results layout: