Herding the Cows at Dusk (Vachère le soir)
c. 1890
Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903
Camille Pissarro
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
monotype on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 15.5 x 23.5 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
plate: 12.7 x 23.5 cm (5 x 9 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1967.19.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Shapiro/Melot 1975, no. 11
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Peter H. Deitsch, New York, NY); purchased 1967 by NGA
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, not in catalogue.
1973
Camille Pissarro: The Impressionist Printmaker, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1973, no. 92.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Herding the Cows at Dusk.
2018
Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2018, no. 80, repro.
Bibliography
1975
Shapiro, Barbara and Michel Melot. "Les Monotypes de Camille Pissaro." Nouvelles de L'Estampe 19 (Jan - Feb 1975): 16-23.
Inscriptions
recto: none; verso: at bottom center, in graphite in later hand: Vachere le soir
Markings
recto: artist's studio stamp (Lugt 613e); verso: none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65507921