Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Property of a Private European Gentleman
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Les Mathurins, Pontoise

細節
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Les Mathurins, Pontoise
signed and dated 'C. Pissarro 1877' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28¾ x 23 3/8 in. (73.2 x 59.4 cm.)
Painted in Pontoise, 1877.
來源
Eugène Murer, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1877).
Dr. Georges Viau, Paris; sale, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, 21-22 March 1907, lot 56.
Mme A. Koch, Germany (circa 1931). Mrs. Regina Thürlimann, Zurich.
Dr. Freddy and Mrs. Regina T. Homburger, Boston (by descent from the above, 1957); sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 11.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
出版
A.P. Trublot, "A minuit. La collection Murer," Le Cri du peuple, 21 October, 1887, p. 3, no. 9.
L.-R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art--son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 137, no. 397 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 81).
P. Gachet, Deux amis des impressionnistes: le docteur Gachet et Murer, Paris, 1956, p. 171, no. 9, pp. 174-175.
R. Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise, the Painter in a Landscape, New Haven, 1990, pp. 42 and 113.
R. Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism (1874-86), San Francisco, 1996, vol. II, no. IV-175.
J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. II, p. 357, no. 507 (illustrated in color).
展覽
Paris, 4ème Exposition des peintures, April-May 1879, no. 175.
Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June-July 1931, no. 197.
Orono, University of Maine, The Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Collection, July-August 1962, no. 21.
Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University, The Rose Art Museum, Boston Collects Modern Art, May-June 1964, no. 98.
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, The Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Collection, September-October 1964, no. 6.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Selections from The Collection of Freddy and Regina T. Homburger, April 1971, p. 50, no. 23 (illustrated, p. 51).
Augusta, Maine State Museum, Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Art Collection, August 1971, no. 27.
Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art; Melbourne, Florida, Brevard Museum of Art & Science, and Daytona Beach, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, A Collector's World: Art of Four Continents, October 1978-November 1979, no. 7.
Portland, Maine, Museum of Art, November 1991-June 2002 (on extended loan).

拍品專文

In July 1871, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the demise of the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned from England, and moved in 1872 to Pontoise, where he would remain for the next decade. Many of his most celebrated works from the years of high Impressionism between 1874 and 1882 were painted in and around Pontoise. The rural nature and rich variety of the landscape attracted other artists including Paul Cézanne, Armand Guillaumin and Paul Gauguin, who worked alongside Pissarro in the 1870s. Pissarro's mastery did not go unnoticed by his contemporaries, and the great critic Theodore Duret was the first to praise and encourage the artist during this period. Richard Brettell comments:

Duret advised Pissarro to stress in his painting "a power of the brush" that the critic considered to be the essential character of Pissarro's aesthetic. Duret's remarks make particular sense when we confront a series of rural landscapes painted by Pissarro and his friends in and around Pontoise. The pictures tend more often than not to be strongly painted with thickly applied separate strokes of the brush or palette knife. It is precisely their power that accords with the ordinary rural subjects of the Pontoise school and is therefore the stylistic hallmark of these pictures (R. Brettell, A Day in the Country, Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984, p. 180).

Pissarro painted the Oise river and the surrounding countryside on many occasions. It afforded him an opportunity to explore the warm light of the region and the reflective quality of the water, favorite motifs of all Impressionist painters. Indeed, the present work captures the very essense of Impressionist landscape painting with the delicate transitions between shades of light and dark, the tactile brushstrokes and the sky thick with billowing clouds.