Chemin de Pasco--Montmorency

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Chemin de Pasco--Montmorency
stamped with initials 'C.P' (Lugt 613b; lower left) and titled 'Chemin de Pasco--Montmorency' (lower right)
pencil on paper laid down on board
10 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (27.6 x 48 cm.)

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Sam Salz, Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan L. Halpern, New York (acquired from the above, April 1962).
By descent from the above to the present owners.

Sale room notice

Joachim Pissarro will include this watercolor in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Camille Pissarro's works on paper. This work was drawn circa 1858.

Lot Essay

Pissarro painted and drew outdoors in Montmorency, a town about forty miles west of Paris, during the summers of 1856-1859. Pissarro appears to have begun his paintings without making preliminary studies, and his landscape drawings were done as independent exercises, often showing the scene in carefully observed detail. There is a related drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Pissarro Collection, catalogue no. 50).

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