Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas, 1856

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 87

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 27.7 x 41 cm (10 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.)

framed: 49.2 x 35.9 x 3.8 cm (19 3/8 x 14 1/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1985.64.30

Artists / Makers

Camille Pissarro (artist) French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: C.Pizarro . Paris 1856.

Provenance

Gunnar A. Sadolin, Dragor, Denmark, by 1939.[1] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1965, no. 146); (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York); sold 1965 to Mr. Paul Mellon Upperville, VA; gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] Published in Sadolin collection in Pissarro/Venturi 1939, no. 5.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Mellon, Paul
Sadolin, Gunnar A.
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

1975: The European Vision of America, National Gallery of Art, Washington;Cleveland Museum of Art; Musées Nationaux de France, 1975-1977

1979: 19th and 20th Century French Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1979 (long term exhibition), checklist no. 62

1995: Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1994-1995, not in cat. (shown only in New York).

1999: "Camille Pissarro", Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1999-2000, no. 2.

2011: Pissarro's People, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2011-2012, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 43.

2014: Camille Pissarro - Der Vater des Impressionismus, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, 2014-2015, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2015: From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller, His Caribbean, and the Era of Impressionism, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Brooklyn Museum; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, 2015-2016.

2016: The First Jewish Americans: Freedom and Culture in the New World, The New-York Historical Society, New York, 2016-2017, no catalogue.

2017: Pissarro: Le premier des impressionnistes = The First among the Impressionists, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, 2017.

Bibliography

1939: Pissarro, Ludovic and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939:1:78, no. 5, as Deux Femmes Causant au Bord de la Mer, Saint-Thomas; 2:pl. 1.

2005: Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of the Paintings, 3 vols., Milan, Paris and New York, 2005: II:no. 23, repro.