Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Marché à Gisors
signed with initials 'CP' (lower right) and stamped with initials 'C.P' (Lugt 613c; lower left)
pastel and charcoal on paper
9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1885
Provenance
Estate of the artist. Harold D. Lion, London. The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown & Phillips), London; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 14 December 1955, lot 67. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale). Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1992, lot 2. Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 2004, lot 313. Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 4 November 2009, lot 140. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.