Cuisine paysanne, vue prise à Montfoucault

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Cuisine paysanne, vue prise à Montfoucault
stamped with initials bottom right 'C.P.' (Lugt 613a)
charcoal heightened with white chalk on brown paper
21½ x 15 7/8in. (54.6 x 40.3cm.)
Drawn circa 1874

Provenance

Estate of the artist; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 8, 1928, lot 252
Galerie M. Rousso, Paris (acquired by the present owner, circa 1970)

Lot Essay

The composition of this drawing is related to two paintings of 1874, La cuisine chez Piette, Montfoucault and Une fileuse, intérior breton, Montfoucault (L. R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, nos. 276 and 277). The artist divided the motifs in the drawing between the two paintings. The fully-rendered manner of this drawing is similar to Barbizon school technique.