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Figure drawings of two young pheasant women standing in three-quarter view, looking away to the right.

The woman on the left holds a large bundle of grains under her right arm. She wears a short sleeved white blouse, brown skirt and cap, looking down to the right. The woman on the right also looks away to the right and down with her hands on her hips, wearing a long blue dress with long sleeves, a scarf wrapped around her head, and sandals on her feet. Both of their faces are drawn with simple lines, no eyes, only the suggestion of the face shape.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.60
People
Camille Pissarro, Danish (St. Thomas, Danish W. Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) 1830 - 1903 Paris)
Title
Two Peasant Women
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1881-1882
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294470

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on faded blue laid paper
Dimensions
47 × 57.8 cm (18 1/2 × 22 3/4 in.)
frame: 57.2 × 72.4 × 3.2 cm (22 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. corner in dark blue pastel: C.P

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Durand-Ruel, Paris?]. Aimee and Rosamond Lamb, by 1933, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1993

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Aimée and Rosamond Lamb
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.60
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Art in New England: Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1939), p. 110, cat. no. 195, repr. as PL. LXXXI
  • Barbara S. Shapiro, Camille Pissarro: The Impressionist Printmaker, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1973), no. 93
  • "Report of the Director", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993-1994), vol. 2, no 2, Winter, ill. p. 15
  • "Chronique des arts", Gazette des Beaux-Artes (March 1994), Vol. 123, No. 1521, p. 63, no. 285, repr.
  • Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI, 2011), repr. p. 126 as pl. 72, listed on p. 171 under "works in the exhibition"
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 206, 286, repr. p. 205 as fig. 2
  • Christophe Duviver and Josef Helfenstein, ed., Camille Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism, exh. cat., Prestel and Kunstmuseum Basel (Munich/Basel, 2021), cat. no. 77, repr. p. 234

Exhibition History

  • Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints from Private Collections in New England, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/09/1939 - 09/10/1939
  • Camille Pissarro: The Impressionist Printmaker, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 04/01/1973 - 09/01/1973
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
  • Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 10/14/2011 - 01/08/2012
  • Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017
  • Camille Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism, Kunstmuseum Basel, 09/04/2021 - 01/23/2022

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