Road by a Field of Cabbages

c. 1880

Camille Pissarro

Associated Names
Camille Pissarro

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

The image shows a rural scene with a tree on the left and a cluster of pumpkins or gourds under the tree. The horizon is visible in the distance, with structures faintly seen against the sky. The color palette is warm and muted with earthy tones. The brushwork is textured and soft, creating a gentle movement in the landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    monotype in gray and yellow on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23 × 18 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
    plate: 20 × 15.4 cm (7 7/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1976.34.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Shapiro/Melot 1975, no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Artist’s studio. (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-13 April 1929, lot 246). Dr. S. Pollag, Zurich; (Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, 27 November 1973, lot 2159). (R.M. Light, Boston); purchased 1976 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2018

  • Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2018, no. 76, 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: below image, at right, in graphite: C. Pissarro; verso: at top, in graphite in later hand: 672

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65566359

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