Houses by a Road

1859

Camille Pissarro

Associated Names
Camille Pissarro

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

This drawing is from a lower perspective, looking up a hill on the left towards a group of buildings, with a path or road winding into the distance on the right. The houses on the hill face the right, and we see them from the side. They have pointed roofs with some low chimneys, and low trees or bushes are between them. Closer to us, at the base of the hill, there is a low stone wall and grassy vegetation beside the path, while more buildings are visible in the distance under a clear sky. The drawing is done in dark gray lines on a light gray background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with graphite on gray-blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24 x 31.5 cm (9 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1970.17.166

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Worth Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida); acquired 1 April 1954 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest 1970 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

Inscriptions

recto: upper left in graphite: no 4; lower left in graphite: C.Pissarro 1859; lower right in brown ink: La Roche Guyon; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: 80 [underlined]; at upper center in graphite in later hand: WCA 1526; at left in graphite in later hand: 678

Markings

none

Watermarks

K E [? fragment]

Wikidata ID

Q64537825

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