Lot Essay
A closely related version of this drawing, certainly drawn during the same session, is in the Banco Central de Venezuela in Caracas (Rewald, fig. 6 and J. Pissarro, Camille Pissaro, Munich, 1993, fig. 27).
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A group of Indians playing cards around a table, Galipan (recto); The country house of the Stürups family in Savana Grande, with a study of woman seen from behind (verso)
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Camille Pissarro (Saint-Thomas 1830-1903 Paris)
A group of Indians playing cards around a table, Galipan (recto); The country house of the Stürups family in Savana Grande, with a study of woman seen from behind (verso)
inscribed 'huciendes de Bueno a Galipan le jeu de cartes des péons -' (recto) and 'La Grande allée de Sans Souci (Savana Grande) dans la maison de Campagne de la famille Stürups' (verso)
black chalk
8 x 10½ in. (203 x 260 mm.)
A group of Indians playing cards around a table, Galipan (recto); The country house of the Stürups family in Savana Grande, with a study of woman seen from behind (verso)
inscribed 'huciendes de Bueno a Galipan le jeu de cartes des péons -' (recto) and 'La Grande allée de Sans Souci (Savana Grande) dans la maison de Campagne de la famille Stürups' (verso)
black chalk
8 x 10½ in. (203 x 260 mm.)