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Object Data

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 81.5 x 65 cm (32 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.)

framed: 106.7 x 90.5 x 9.5 cm (42 x 35 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Accession Number

1994.59.6

Artists / Makers

Camille Pissarro (painter) French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903

Image Use

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Detail Information

Inscription

lower right: C. Pissarro / 1883-95

Provenance

By inheritance from the artist [1830-1903] to his wife, Mme. Camille [Julie] Pissarro; [1] by gift 1921 to the artist's daughter Jeanne Pissarro-Bonin [Mme Alexandre Bonin, 1881-1948]; sold 23 May 1923 to (Durand-Ruel, Paris);sold January 1959 to (Sam Salz, New York); sold April 1959 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[2] gift 1994 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1914
Rétrospective C. Pissarro, Galerie Manzi et Joyant, Paris, 1914, no. 36.
1921
Collection de Mme Vve Pissarro, Galerie Nunès et Fiquet, Paris, 1921, no. 16.
1928
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1928, no. 42.
1930
Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1930, no. 62, repro., as Le triage des choux.
1937
Chefs d'Oeuvre de l'art français, International Exposition, Paris, 1937. no. 385
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 35, repro.
2011
Pissarro's People, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2011-2012, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 126.

Bibliography

1939
Pissarro, Ludovic and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1939:1:169, no. 617, as Le Triage de Choux; 2:pl. 128.
1981
Lloyd, Christopher. Camille Pissarro. New York, 1981: 90, 146, repro., as The Sorting of Cabbages (The Gardener - Old Peasant with Cabbage).
1993
Pissarro, Joachim. Camille Pissarro. New York, 1993: 182-183, no. 205., repro.
2005
Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of the Paintings, 3 vols., Milan, Paris and New York, 2005: II:no. 710, repro.

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