CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)

Details

CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)

La Saint-Martin à Pontoise

painted porcelain
15¾ x 7¾ in. (40 x 19.7 cm.)

Painted 1884-1885

Provenance

Estate of the artist; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,
Dec. 3, 1928, no. 56
Mrs. Harlan Miller, Paris

Literature

L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art - son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 310, no. 1668 (illustrated,
vol. II, pl. 312)

Exhibited

London, Hayward Gallery, Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Life, 1990, no. 30

Lot Essay

This porcelain plaque is one of four which the artist painted to decorate the sides of a jardinière. Mrs. Harlan Miller acquired this and the two following lots in the 1928 sale of works from the artist's collection. The fourth decoration went to another buyer.