The Crystal Palace by Camille Pissarro
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The Crystal Palace

Camille Pissarro · 1871

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Charles J. Galloway, Thorneyholme, Kunstford, Cheshire, by 1892 [per Galloway 1892]; sold Sold at the Charles J. Galloway estate sale, Christie’s, London, June 26, 1905, lot 279, to Bernheim–Jeune, Paris, for £68.5 [per Christie’s sale cat. 1905]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, July 4, 1905 [this and the three following per Durand-Ruel Archives, as confirmed by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute, Mar. 30, 2000, curatorial object file]; transferred to Durand-Ruel, New York, by January 1931; sold to Henry Johnson Fisher (d. 1965), Greenwich, Conn., June 19, 1941; by descent to his family [per Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, 1967]; sold to Hirschl & Adler, New York, Apr. 6, 1970 [this and the following per Greg Hedberg, Hirschl and Adler, to Gloria Groom, e-mail correspondence, Dec. 1, 2014, curatorial object file]; sold to Mr. B. E. Bensinger, Chicago, June 14, 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, beginning in 1972 [The painting was given to the Art Institute of Chicago in undivided fractional interests beginning in 1972. The Art Institute received the final fractional interest for one hundred percent ownership in 1974].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Possibly Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro: Tableaux, aquarelles, pastels, gouaches, Mar. 3–21, 1894, cat. 6, as Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace, or as cat. 7, as Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace, temps de neige.
  • Glasgow, International Exhibition, May 2–Nov. 1901, cat. 1371, as Crystal Palace, lent by C. J. Galloway, Esq.
  • London, New Gallery, Sixth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, Jan.–Feb. 1906, cat. 208.
  • Manchester City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Winter 1907–08, cat. 167.
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim, Werke der Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, Dec. 1909, cat. 64.
  • City Art Museum of St. Louis, Loan Exhibition of French Painting, 1800–1880, Jan. 1931, cat. 24.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, and Sisley prior to 1880, Oct. 12–Nov. 2, 1931, cat. 3 (ill.).
  • New York, Union League Club, Paintings by the Master Impressionists, Nov. 8–20, 1932, cat. 13.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Camille Pissarro in Retrospect, Jan. 3–24, 1933, cat. 2.
  • City Art Museum of St. Louis, Paintings by French Impressionists (1860–1880), Apr. 17–May 16, 1934, no cat.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by the Master Impressionists, Oct. 15–Nov. 10, 1934, cat. 19.
  • Toronto, Mallows Fine Arts, [paintings lent by Durand-Ruel], Dec. 1934–Feb. 1935.

Literature

Published references

  • Charles J. Galloway, Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings at Thorneyholme, Cheshire, Collected by Charles J. Galloway (G. Galkner, 1892), opp. p. 94 (ill.): p. 20, no. 49.
  • Possibly Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro: Tableaux, aquarelles, pastels, gouaches: Catalogue, exh. cat. ([Durand-Ruel], 1894), p. 3, cat. 6 or 7.
  • L. Cardon, “Camille Pissarro,” L’evénement, Mar. 6, 1894.
  • A. Alexandre, “L’art à Paris: Camille Pissarro,” Paris, Mar. 8, 1894.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901: Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section, exh. cat. (Chas. P. Watson, 1901), p. 91, cat. 1371.
  • Christie’s, Catalogue of the Important Collection of Modern Pictures and Water Colour Drawings of Charles J. Galloway, Esq., sale cat. (Christie’s, London, June 24–27, 1905), p. 49, lot 279, as The Crystal Palace.
  • “Pictures,” in “Auction Sale Prices,” supplement, Connoisseur 7, 44 (July 31, 1905), p. 100.
  • New Gallery, London, A Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Sixth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, exh. cat. (Ballantyne & Co., 1906), p. 34, cat. 208.
  • Manchester City Art Gallery, Handbook to the Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, exh. cat. (Taylor, Garnett, Evans, 1907), p. 34, cat. 167.
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim, Ausstellung von Werken der Malerei des 19. jahrhunderts, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1909), cat. 64.
  • Adolphe Tabarant, Pissarro, trans. J. Lewis May, Masters of Modern Art (Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1925), pl. 10.
  • Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro and Sisley prior to 1880, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1931), cat. 3 (ill.).

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