The Children, 1880

Not on View

Medium

opaque watercolor with graphite on canvas mounted on board

Dimensions

image: 29.21 × 41.91 cm (11 1/2 × 16 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Pissarro and Venturi 1939, no. 1334

Accession Number

2014.18.41

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in gouache: C. Pissarro. 80

Provenance

James P. Silo, New York; to Hugo Reisinger, New York, 1908; (sale, American Art Association, The Plaza Hotel, New York, 20 January 1916, no. 46). Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia, by 1966; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1881: 6me Exposition de Peinture (6th Impressionist Exhibition). 35, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, p. 9, no. 83 (as "Enfants dessinant).

Bibliography

1939: Pissarro, Ludovic, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939, vol. 1: 266, no. 1334, as Enfants à Table; 2: pl. 261.

1986: Moffett, Charles S., et al. The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. Exh. cat., The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and National Gallery of Art, Washington. San Francisco, 1986, p. 355 (repro. of pages from the catalogue of the 6th Impressionist Exhibition).