The Banks of the Marne in Winter by Camille Pissarro
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The Banks of the Marne in Winter

Camille Pissarro · 1866

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist (d. 1903); by descent to his son, Paul-Émile Pissarro, Paris, 1904 [per Pissarro and Snollaerts 2005]; sold Pissarro sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 3, 1928, lot 27 to Jacques Dubourg, Paris, for 35,000 francs [per annotated copy of sale cat. Galerie Georges Petit 1928, copy in curatorial object file]. S.G. Archibald, Paris, by February 1930 [per Musée de l’Orangerie 1930]. Possibly Dr. Tom John Honeyman, Glasgow, after February 1930 [this and the following per S. Martin Summers, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 6, 2000, curatorial object file]; Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, 1951; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, November 7, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon de 1866, May 1–June 20, 1866, cat. 1564, as Bords de la Marne en hiver.
  • Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro, Feb.–Mar. 1930, cat. 3.
  • Chicago, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Fifth Annual Exhibition of Modern French Painting, Feb. 7–21, 1932, cat. 23.
  • Possibly Glasgow Art Gallery, The Spirit of France: French Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June 1943, cat. 38.
  • London, Lefevre Gallery, French Masters, XIX and XX Century, June–July 1952, cat. 13 (ill.).
  • New York, Wildenstein, C. Pissarro, Mar. 25–May 1, 1965, cat. 2 (ill.).
  • Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Howard Sirak, Feb. 18–Feb. 25, 1975, no cat.
  • Highland Park, Ill., Neison Harris, Mar. 7–May 21, 1975, no cat.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Second Empire, 1852–1870: Art in France under Napoleon III, Oct. 1–Nov. 26, 1978, cat. VI-96 (ill.); Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan. 18–Mar. 18, 1979; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’art en France sous le Second Empire, May 11–Aug. 13, 1979, cat. 264 (ill.).
  • London, Hayward Gallery, Pissarro: Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Oct. 30, 1980–Jan. 11, 1981, cat. 6 (ill.); Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jan. 30–Apr. 27, 1981; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19–Aug. 9, 1981.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 9 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
  • Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, cat. 156; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Origins of Impressionism, September 27, 1994–January 8, 1995.

Literature

Published references

  • Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie, exh. cat. (Charles de Mourgues Frères, 1866), p. 199, cat. 1564.
  • Jules-Antoine Castagnary, “Le Salon, III,” La liberté, May 7, 1866, p. 1.
  • Jules-Antoine Castagnary, “Le Salon, IV,” La liberté, May 9, 1866, p. 1.
  • Émile Zola, “Adieux d’un critique d’art,” L’événement illustré, May 20, 1866.
  • Jean Rousseau, “Le Salon de 1866,” L’univers illustré, July 14, 1866, p. 447.
  • Émile Zola, Mon Salon (Librairie Centrale, 1866), pp. 67–68.
  • Salons de W. Bürger, 1861 à 1868, with a preface by Théophile Thoré, vol. 2 (Librairie de Ve Jules Renouard, 1870), p. 329.
  • Jules-Antoine Castagnary, “Salon de 1866,” in Salons (1857–1870), vol. 1 (Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1892), p. 235.
  • Adolphe Tabarant, Pissarro, trans. J. Lewis May, Masters of Modern Art (Dodd, Mead, 1925), pp. 18–19.
  • Charles Kunstler, “Camille Pissarro (1830–1903),” La renaissance 11 (Dec. 1928), pp. 499 (ill.); 503.
  • Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Catalogue des oeuvres importantes de Camille Pissarro, sale cat. (Galerie Georges Petit, Dec. 3, 1928), pp. 9, lot 27; 29, no. 27 (ill.), as Paysage à La Varenne-Sainte-Hilaire.
  • François Thiébault-Sisson, “Art et curiosité: Le centenaire du peintre Pissarro (1830–1903),” Le Temps, Feb. 22, 1930, p. 5.

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