Le pont Corneille à Rouen

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Le pont Corneille à Rouen
stamped with initials ‘C.P.’ (Lugt 613e; lower right)
colored chalks on paper
4 ½ x 5 ¼ in. (11.6 x 13.4 cm.)

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Private collection, Oxfordshire (by 2002).
Stern Pissarro Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, March 2009.

Exhibited

London, Bury Street Gallery, Master Drawings, July 1981, no. 197 (illustrated, pl. 108).
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum and Northampton, Central Museum and Art Gallery, For the Love of Drawing, Drawings from an Oxfordshire Private Collection, June-October 2002.

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Lot Essay

Dr. Joachim Pissarro will include this work in his forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings by Camille Pissarro.

On the verso of the present work is a letter in which Pissarro explains his different styles of drawing to an enquirer.

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