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In the Garden at Pontoise: A Young Woman Washing Dishes
Pissarro, Camille (painter)
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Title/s
In the Garden at Pontoise: A Young Woman Washing Dishes
Maker/s
Pissarro, Camille (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1830-1903]
Category
painting
Name
painting
School/Style
Technique Description
Dimensions
height: (canvas): 81.9
cm
width: (canvas): 65.3
cm
Date
1882
Provenance
bought: Gimpel Fils, London 1947 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
Durand-Ruel (bought from the artist in 1882, for 2,500 frs); Averkieff collection, 1938; Mrs. Tattersal; with René Gimpel, Paris, 1939; Gimpel Fils, London, 1947, from whom bought by the Fitzwilliam MuseumFrom the Spencer George Perceval Fund with a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund.
Inscriptions/Marks
-
signature
Position: lower right
Method:
Content: C. Pissarro -
date
Position: lower right
Method:
Content: 1882 -
label
Position: verso, on frame
Method: painted label
Content: 1452 -
label
Position: verso, on frame
Method: MS label
Content: No 897 (very indistinct) -
stamp
Position: verso, on stretcher
Method: rubber stamp
Content: SIR ARTHUR ABRAHAMS -
label
Position: verso, on stretcher
Method: printed label
Content: Bourlet, London (packing firm] -
label
Position: verso, on stretcher
Method: printed label
Content: Chenue, London, edorsed (packing firm) -
label
Position: verso, on stretcher
Method: MS label
Content: Gimpel Keep -
label
Position: verso, on canvas
Method: MS label
Content: PISSARRO / LA SERVANTE / EN PLEIN AIR -
stamp
Position: verso, on canvas
Method: rubber stamp
Content: DOUANE / PARIS / EXPOSITION -
stencil
Position: verso, on canvas
Content: dealer in artist's materials
Documentation
- (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 109]
- Pissarro, Ludovic Rodo (1939) Camille Pissarro; son art - son oeuvre, Colmar, Paris: Rosenberg [page: 163]
[comments: no. 579, with the title 'La Laveuse de Vaisselle'] - Pissarro, Ludovic Rodo (1939) Camille Pissarro; son art - son oeuvre, Colmar, Paris: Rosenberg
[comments: pl. 120, no. 579] - (1948) National Art-Collections Fund Annual Report 1947, London? [page: 13]
[comments: reproduced] - Winter, Carl (1958) The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey, London: Trianon Press [page: 411]
[comments: pl. 105] - Goodison, J.W. (1960) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, French, German and Spanish, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 188]
[comments: pl. 100] - Hoyland, Francis (1960) 'La laveuse de vaisselle' by Camille Pissarro, [page: 188]
- Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 200-201]
Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
[comments: B.B.C "Painting of the month", Feb. 1967, by Francis Hoyland, his talk printed in this edition of The Listener, reproduced] - Pissarro, Joachim and Durand-Ruel Snollearts, Claire (2005) Pissarro. Critical Catalogue of Paintings, Milan: Skira Editore S.p. A. [page: 458, vol. II]
[comments: Entitled 'La Vaiselle' / 'Washing Up']
Accession Number
PD.53-1947 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 2858; Input Date: 2000-03-09 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)
Related Resources
French Impressionists - Online Exhibition
Related Image/s
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