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Camille Pissarro

Hampton Court Green, 1891

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54.3 x 73 cm (21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.)

framed: 76.2 x 95.2 x 9.5 cm (30 x 37 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.53

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower left: C. Pissarro.1891

Provenance

Purchased from the artist 24 February 1892 by (Durand-Ruel, Paris);[1] sold 27 February 1911 to (Paul Cassirer, Berlin).[2] English private collection; purchased 1951 by (Marlborough Fine Art, London). (Arthur Tooth & Sons, London); sold 8 May 1952 to (Sam Salz, Inc., New York); sold September 1953 to Oscar Howalka; [3] (Sam Salz, Inc, New York); sold 9 June 1954 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[4] bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1 ]Durand-Ruel stock number 2346 provided in letter dated 12 July 1983 from Charles Durand-Ruel.

[2] See letter dated 21 October 2000 from Walter Feilchenfeldt.

[3] Provenance from English private colletion to Howalka per Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vols., Milan, Paris, and New York, 2005: III:no. 887.

[4] Dated receipt in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Durand-Ruel et Cie
Galerie Paul Cassirer
Howolka, Oscar
Marlborough Fine Art
Salz, Sam
Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Arthur

Exhibition History

1892: Association pour l'Art, Anvers, 1892, no. 3

1961: French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, no. 38, repro

1965: C. Pissarro, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1965, no. 52, repro.

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 33, repro

1984: Loan for display with permanent collection, Munch Museum, Oslo, 1984-1985.

1986: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 23, repro.

1989: Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1990: Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 42, repro.

1992: From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 53, repro.

1994: Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1994-1995, no. 97, repro.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 152-153, color repro.

1999: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.

1999: Camille Pissarro, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1999-2000, no. 61.

1999: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 46, repro.

2005: Camille Pissarro, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2005-2006, no. 58, repro.

2016: Ways of Pointillism: Seurat, Signac, Van Gogh, Albertina, Vienna, 2016-2017.

2017: The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile, 1870-1904, Tate Britain, London; Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 2017-2018, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1939: Pissarro, Ludovic and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939: 1:186, no. 746; 2:pl. 155.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 272, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 508, no. 761, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 315, repro.

1993: Reid, Martin. Pissarro. London, 1993: 118, repro.

2005: Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of the Paintings, 3 vols., Milan, Paris and New York, 2005: III:no. 887, repro.