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Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
Camille Pissarro · 1895
Provenance
Ownership history
- Albert Pontremoli, Paris, by April, 1904 [per Pissarro and Snollaerts, 2005]; sold Albert Pontremoli Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11, 1924, lot 136 (ill.) to Dr. Janos Plesch, Berlin, for 37,700 francs [per Hôtel Drouot sale cat. 1924]; Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, by 1939 [this and the three following per material prepared by Richard-Raymond Alasko, May 1985, curatorial object file and Pissarro and Snollaerts, 2005]; sold to Mrs. John Astor, New York. E and A. Silberman Gallery, New York, by 1951; sold to Nathan Cummings, Chicago, January 25, 1952; transferred to Consolidated Foods Nathan Cummings Collection (Sara Lee Corporation), 1980; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Feb.–Mar. 2, 1895.
- Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, Mar. 21–Apr. 15, 1895.
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, Apr. 7–30, 1904, cat. 93.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Great French Paintings: An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, Jan. 20–Feb. 20, 1955, cat. 32 (ill.).
- New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings: For the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., Oct. 12–Nov. 1, 1955, cat. 23 (ill.).
- Palm Beach, Fla., The Society of the Four Arts, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903, Jan. 9–31, 1960, cat. 19 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Apr. 15–May 7, 1961, no cat. no.
- New York, Wildenstein, Modern French Painting, Apr. 11–25, 1962, cat. 48; Waltham, Mass., Rose Art Museum, May 10–June 13, 1962.
- Paris, Institute of Fine Arts, 1962.
- Chicago, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Nov. 16–21, 1963.
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings from the Cummings Collection, Jan. 14–Mar. 7, 1965, no cat. no.
- New London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, Jan. 19–Feb. 18, 1968, no cat. no. (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Preface by Octave Mirbeau, Catalogue de l’exposition de l’oeuvre de Camille Pissarro, exh. cat. (Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1904), p. 18, cat. 93.
- Valensol, “Le vie artistique: L’exposition Pissarro,” Le petit parisien, Apr. 13, 1904, p. 2.
- Henri Pellier, “Petits salons: Camille Pissarro,” La petite république, Apr. 14, 1904, p. 3.
- Julius Meier-Graefe, “Camille Pissarro,” Kunst und Künstler 2, 12 (Sept. 1904), p. 486.
- Léon Riotor, Les arts et les lettres, 3 ser. (Alphonse Lemerre, 1908), pp. 480–81.
- Hôtel Drouot, Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, dessins, pastels, sculpture: Collection de M. Albert Pontremoli, sale cat. (Hôtel Drouot, June 10, 1924), pp. 44; lot 136 (ill.).
- “Chronique des ventes,” Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot, June 12, 1924, p. 1.
- Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son oeuvre, vol. 1, Texte (P. Rosenberg, 1939), p. 206, cat. 903.
- Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son oeuvre, vol. 2, Planche (P. Rosenberg, 1939), pl. 183, cat. 903.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Great French Paintings: An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1955), cat. 32 (ill.).
- Edna Perkel, with the assistance of Anne Dahlgren Hecht, An Exhibition of Paintings: For the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., exh. cat. (E. and A. Silberman Gallery, 1955), p. 35, cat. 23 (ill.).
- Society of the Four Arts, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903, exh. cat. (Society of the Four Arts, 1960), pp. 8; 22, cat. 19 (ill.).
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