Summer Landscape, Eragny
Camille Pissarro, French, 1830 - 1903
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1887 and 1902Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
22 × 26 inches (55.9 × 66 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
1961-150-1Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. William I. Mirkil, 1961
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1887 and 1902Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
22 × 26 inches (55.9 × 66 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 152, European Art 1850-1900, first floor (Toll Gallery)
Accession Number:1961-150-1Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. William I. Mirkil, 1961
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country lane [x] cowherd [x] cows [x] farm [x] french artist [x] impressionism [x] impressionist [x] poplars [x] rural [x]Influenced by the Pointillist work of Georges Seurat, Pissarro originally painted this landscape entirely in small dots of color and dated it [18]87 in the lower right corner. The work remained in Pissarro's studio where, several years later, the upper left of the canvas was torn. The artist repaired the work and added a second date of 1902. Because Pissarro had by then abandoned the Pointillist style, the repainted area of the painting—the sky—exhibits the looser, more Impressionistic style of his later years.
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Provenance
Dr. Albert Charpentier, Paris, by 1930, until at least 1939 [1]. R. Bernheim; sold to Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1956; sold to Mr. and Mrs. William I. Mirkil, Haverford, PA, 1957 [2]; Ruth Richmond Mirkil (Mrs. William I. Mirkil) (d. 1987); gift to PMA, 1961. 1. Charpentier exhibited the painting in the 1930 Pissarro centennial exhibition, and he is listed as the owner in Pissarro and Venturi's catalogue raisonné of 1939 (no. 1260). Not in his sale, Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, March 30, 1954. The PMA Bulletin (Fall 1964, p. 13) lists Georges Charpentier as a previous owner, but this is incorrect; Georges Charpentier died in the early years of the twentieth century and his collections passed to his daughters. 2. Provenance information per Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, Milan and Paris, 2005, vol. 3, no. 852.* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.