Portrait d'enfant debout (recto) and Portrait d'enfant au chapeau (verso)

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Portrait d'enfant debout (recto) and Portrait d'enfant au chapeau (verso)
signed twice with initials (lower right and lower left on the recto); inscribed with the number '21' (lower right on the verso)
pencil on paper
145/8 x 9¾in. (37 x 24.5in.)
Drawn in the late 1860s

Provenance

Charles Vignier, Paris.
Thence by descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

The recto and verso of this sheet are most probably portraits of Pissarro's son Lucien, born in 1865 from the artist's relationship with Julie Vellay. These tender depictions of Lucien display Pissarro's early sources of inspiration: Degas influenced by Ingres, and particularly Corot's pencil drawings.

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