The Cabbage Field (Le Champ de choux)

c. 1880, printed posthumously

Camille Pissarro

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

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching with open-bite tone on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.7 x 16.8 cm (9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 31.5 x 24 cm (12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.11.175

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 29, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1970

  • Graphics by Contemporary Painters, Allentown Art Museum, PA, 1970.

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 35a.

1973

  • Camille Pissarro: The Impressionist Printmaker, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973, no. 25, fig. 19.

2011

  • Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

2010

  • Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at right in graphite in later hand: 4/6; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: D29; verso: none

Markings

recto: black-stamped below image at left: C. P. [Camille Pissarro, Lugt 613e]; verso: none

Watermarks

fragment of cursive letters

Wikidata ID

Q65507916

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