CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)

Femme vidant une brouette

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CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
Femme vidant une brouette
etching and drypoint, 1880, on laid paper, watermark letters D & C in a cartouche, a fine, tonal impression of this very rare print, Delteil's third state (of eleven), titled and inscribed in pencil 3e Etat – no 1, one of four or five numbered impressions of this proof state, printing with much burr, the full sheet, a deckle edge at right and above, generally in good condition
Plate 318 x 223 mm.
Sheet 473 x 311 mm.

Provenance

With Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), Paris.
Henri M. Petiet (1894-1980), Paris (see Lugt 5031; without his mark); acquired from the estate of the above.

Literature

‌Delteil 31

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Lot Essay

Femme vidant une brouette is technically one of the most complex of Pissarro's graphic oeuvre. The present third state is before he signed the print on the plate, added aquatint and changed the composition by enlarging the tree and haystack is the fourth state, and made further alterations in etching, drypoint and with the scaper in the final state. The print is generally very rare, with only a few impressions pulled also of the previous and subsequent states.

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