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Young Peasant Having Her Coffee
Camille Pissarro · 1881
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist (d. 1903); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, December 19, 1881 [this and the two following per Pissarro and Snollaerts 2005]; sold to Georges Petit, Paris, August 9, 1883; sold back to Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 17, 1891, for 1,000 francs; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, April 29, 1892, for 3,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel Archives, Paris stock no. 912, as Le Café au lait, as confirmed by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 13, 1994, curatorial object file]; by descent to the Palmer family; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, 251, rue Saint-Honoré, Salons du Panorama de Reischoffen, 7me exposition des artistes indépendants [Seventh impressionist exhibition], Mar. 1–31, 1882, cat. 111, as Jeune paysanne prenant son café.
- London, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of “La Société des impressionnistes,” Apr. 20–July 1883, cat. 5, as Paysanne prenant son Café.
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, Jan. 23–Feb. 20, 1892, cat 16, as La Café au lait.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 301.
- Los Angeles Museum, The Development of Impressionism, Jan. 12–Feb. 28, 1940, cat. 56 (ill.).
- Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Mar. 1940, no cat.
- Omaha, Nebr., Joslyn Art Museum, Mary Cassatt among the Impressionists, Apr. 10–June 1, 1969, cat. 39 (ill.).
- Mobile (Ala.) Art Gallery, The Impressionists: Painting in France in the Late Nineteenth Century, Nov. 5–30, 1969, no cat. no. (ill.).
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, Boccioni e il suo tempo, Dec. 10, 1973¬–Feb. 24, 1974, cat. 1 (ill.).
- Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878–1882, Nov. 2, 1979–Jan. 6, 1980, cat. 41 (ill.).
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Jan. 17–Apr. 6, 1986, cat. 127 (ill.); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Apr. 19–July 6, 1986.
- Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 25; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
Literature
Published references
- Catalogue de la 7me exposition des artistes indépendants, exh. cat. (Morris Pére et Fils, 1882), cat. 111.
- Arthur Hustin, “L’exposition des peintres indépendants,” L’estafette, Mar. 3, 1882, p. 3.
- Armand Sallanches, “L’exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le journal des arts, Mar. 3, 1882, p. 1.
- Draner [Jules Renard], “Une visite aux impressionnistes,” Le charivari, Mar. 9, 1882, p. 3.
- Arthur Hustin, “L’exposition des impressionnistes,” Moniteur des arts, Mar. 10, 1882, p. 1.
- Émile Hennequin, “Beaux-Arts: Les expositions des arts libéraux et des artistes indépendants,” La revue littéraire et artistique, Mar. 11, 1882, p. 155.
- Armand Silvestre, “Le monde des arts: Expositions particulières: Septième exposition des artistes indépendants,” La vie moderne, Mar. 11, 1882, p. 151.
- Paul de Charry, “Beaux-Arts,” Le pays, Mar. 14, 1882, p. 3.
- “Nouvelles parisiennes,” L’art moderne, Mar. 19, 1882, p. 93.
- Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell/Société des Impressionnistes, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, and Pastels by Members of “La société des impressionnistes,” exh. cat. (Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, 1883), p. 7, cat. 5.
- Possibly J.–K. Huysmans, “Appendice,” in L’art moderne (G. Charpentier, 1883), pp. 261–77.
- Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro, exh. cat. (E. Ménard et Cie, 1892), p. 23, cat 16.
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