Bridge at Caracas, 1854

Not on View

Medium

transparent watercolor and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 24 x 30.5 cm (9 7/16 x 12 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1985.64.108

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: lower center in graphite: C. Pissarro .5 Janv. 54; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: 50; at lower right in graphite in later hand: 22

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1969, no. 272); purchased by (Hector Brame, Paris) for Paul Mellon [1907-1999]; gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Brame, Hector
Mellon, Paul
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1980: Pissarro, Hayward Gallery, London; Grand Palais, Paris; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980-1981, no. 100, repro.

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

2017: Pissarro. Between Danish Golden Age Painting and French Impressionism, Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1980: Pissarro 1980, 100.