Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Cour de ferme

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Pissarro, C.
Cour de ferme
signed and indistinctly dated 'C. Pissarro' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 47 cm.)
Painted circa 1863

Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.

Literature

L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art--son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 81, no. 26; vol. II, pl. 5 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Matre Franais XIX-XX Sicles, May-July 1988, no. 20 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

During his early years in France, Pissarro regularly traveled between Paris and the countryside. One of the principal themes of his work at this time was the exploration of rural imagery. His painting style was influenced by the Barbizon artists, and in particular, by the works of Corot. Pissarro formally referred to himself as a "pupil" of Corot in the catalogues of the Salons of 1864 and 1865. Cour de ferme is one of a small number of Pissarro's early works still in existence, as most were destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.

Cour de ferme

Lot Essay

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