Herding the Cows at Dusk (Vachère le soir)

c. 1890

Camille Pissarro

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

Camille Pissarro

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    monotype on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

  • 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

  • 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


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