Les gardeuses de vaches

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Les gardeuses de vaches
signed and dated 'C. Pissarro 1883' (lower left); signed and dated again faintly (lower right)
gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper
11¾ x 9in. (30 x 23cm.)
Executed in 1883

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (12306), by whom acquired on 25 August 1891.
Paul and Joseph Durand-Ruel, Paris (see note below).
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 December 1996, lot 112, where acquired by the above by the present owner.

Literature

L. Rodo-Pissarro & L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, Son art-son oeuvre, Vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 1378, p. 272 (illustrated Vol. II, pl. 1378).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, February 1892, no. 63.
Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Premières Epoques de Camille Pissarro, May - June 1936, no. 42.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, April 1904, no. 148.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, tableaux et gouaches, January 1910, no. 77.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Les gardeuses de vaches, which bears the inscription 'Vestibule 35 au 37' on the reverse was, in the early 1900s, hanging in the corridor adjoining the flats of Paul Durand-Ruel (35 rue de Rome - photographed below standing in his gallery) and his son Joseph (37 rue de Rome).

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