The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes

c. 1872

Camille Pissarro

Associated Names
Camille Pissarro

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

This painting shows a street view from a slightly elevated position. The tan path is lined with a few trees and houses. On the right, two people in dark dresses are walking along the street, and on the left we can see the side of a white house. More buildings with red roofs are visible in the distance, down the path that stretches from the bottom right corner into the center of the image. The sky is mostly white paper, with a few streaks of blue. The color palette is soft and muted, with browns, greens, pale blues, and touches of red, and the brushstrokes are loose and fluid.

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 219, repro.

1980

  • Pissarro, Hayward Gallery, London; Grand Palais, Paris; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980-1981.

1986

  • Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist

2007

  • Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, 2007 - 2008, no. 15.

Bibliography

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce; Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition 1941-1966. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966: 219.

1980

  • Pissarro 1980, 105 (as "The Versailles road at Louveciennes," c.1870).

Inscriptions

recto: lower left with the point of the brush in blue wash: C. Pissarro; verso: at upper right in blue pencil in later hand: 173

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Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64537827

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