Bridge at Caracas
1854
Camille Pissarro
Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
transparent watercolor and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 24 x 30.5 cm (9 7/16 x 12 in.)
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Accession Number
1985.64.108
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
2025
The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionsim, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Denver Art Museum, Denver, 2025-2026: no. 5, repro.
Bibliography
1980
Pissarro 1980, 100.
2025
Daneo, Angelica, and Snollaerts, Claire Durand-Ruel. The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism. Exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 2025-2026: no. 5, 52.
Inscriptions
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
Markings
none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64537828