Berger et moutons, Eragny

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Berger et moutons, Eragny
signed and dated 'C. Pissarro. 89' (lower left)
pastel and charcoal on paper
9¼ x 11 7/8 in. (23.5 x 30.3 cm.)
Drawn in Eragny, 1889

Provenance

Lucien Pissarro, London.
Private collection, London (early 1940s).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

L.-R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 297, no. 1578 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 302).
J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. III, p. 573 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Pissarro in England, June-July 1968, p. 29, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 66).
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Fukuoka Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Rétrospective Camille Pissarro, March-July 1984, no. 91 (illustrated).
Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery and Glasgow, The Burrell Collection, Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labour, March-June 1990, no. 50.
Ferrera, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Camille Pissarro, February-May 1998, p. 74, no. 40 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

This work will be included in the catalogue critique of Camille Pissarro's pastels and gouaches being prepared by Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.

Lot Essay

From 1889 to 1902, Pissarro produced several works depicting the theme of a shepherd herding his flock, including the present pastel, two gouaches, two fan decorations and one drawing. The present work is a direct study for the oil painting Paysage avec troupeau de moutons (J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, no. 873; fig. 1).

(fig. 1) Camille Pissarro, Paysage avec troupeau de moutons, 1889-1902. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California.

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