1942.204: Banks of the Oise

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.204

People

Camille Pissarro, Danish (St. Thomas, Danish W. Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) 1830 - 1903 Paris)

Title

Banks of the Oise

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Bords de l'Oise (Le Porteur d'Eau)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1874

Culture

Danish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230320

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas mounted on modern aluminum panel

Dimensions

46 × 38.4 cm (18 1/8 × 15 1/8 in.)
framed: 61.9 × 54 × 7.6 cm (24 3/8 × 21 1/4 × 3 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: C. Pissarro 1874

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Louis Cazalens. [Etienne Bignou.] [Hotel Drouot, June 15, 1927, no. 51]; to [Gérard Frères]. Sam Salz, New York. [Wildenstein and Company, New York ( - 1940)] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, (1940-1942) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.204

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Vente, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, June 15, 1927), no. 51, repr.
• Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: son art--son oeuvre, Paul Rosenberg (Paris, France, 1939), no. 245 (vol. I, p. 114; vol. II, p. 49)
• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, repr. in b/w, fig. 43, p. 52
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 124, repr. as no. 329
• Richard R. Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1990), mentioned p. 168
• Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 21
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 98, pp. 246-248, repr. in color
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 98, pp. 258-259, repr. in color

Exhibition History

• Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
• The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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