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Lot Essay
Au début de son séjour à Rouen, Pissarro rend visite à Léon Monet, frère de Claude, dans sa propriété de Maromme, près de Rouen. Séduit par les deux tableaux que le peintre vient d'exécuter, il les achète aussitôt. Le 18 octobre 1883, Claude Monet écrit à son marchand Paul Durand-Ruel: "Il se peut que j'aille aussi à Rouen dimanche. Mon frère, auquel je promets depuis si longtemps d'aller le voir, a vu Pissarro et m'attend ces jours-ci. Peut-être alors nous rencontrerons-nous chez Pissarro." (D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, vol. II, p. 231, lettre no. 377).
At the beginning of his stay in Rouen, Pissarro visited Claude's brother Léon Monet at his house in Maromme, near Rouen. Attracted to two paintings the painter had just completed, he bought them on the spot. On 18th October, 1883, Claude Monet wrote to his dealer Paul Duraud-Ruel: "May also be needed in Rouen on Sunday. My brother, who I have been promising to visit for so long, has seen Pissarro and is expecting me any day. Perhaps we will meet at Pissarro's house then." (D. Wildenstein. Claude Monet, Bibliographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, vol. II, p. 231, letter no. 377).
At the beginning of his stay in Rouen, Pissarro visited Claude's brother Léon Monet at his house in Maromme, near Rouen. Attracted to two paintings the painter had just completed, he bought them on the spot. On 18th October, 1883, Claude Monet wrote to his dealer Paul Duraud-Ruel: "May also be needed in Rouen on Sunday. My brother, who I have been promising to visit for so long, has seen Pissarro and is expecting me any day. Perhaps we will meet at Pissarro's house then." (D. Wildenstein. Claude Monet, Bibliographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, vol. II, p. 231, letter no. 377).