Lot Essay
This gouache is a study for the etching Mendiantes, circa 1894 (Delteil, no. 110).
Details
CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
Les petites mendiantes
signed with initials bottom right 'C.P.', dated bottom left 'Eragny. 1890'--gouache, watercolor, pen, black ink and black chalk on pink paper
11 7/8 x 9 1/4in. (30.2 x 23.5cm.)
Painted in 1890
Les petites mendiantes
signed with initials bottom right 'C.P.', dated bottom left 'Eragny. 1890'--gouache, watercolor, pen, black ink and black chalk on pink paper
11 7/8 x 9 1/4in. (30.2 x 23.5cm.)
Painted in 1890
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 9, 1935, lot 22
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
G. Blair Laing Limited, Toronto (acquired by the present owner, 1976)
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
G. Blair Laing Limited, Toronto (acquired by the present owner, 1976)
Literature
L. R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art--son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, no. 1445 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 281)
Exhibited
London, Hayward Gallery, Camille Pissarro, Impressionism Landscape and Rural Labour, 1990, no. 54