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CAMILLE PISSARRO (CHARLOTTE – AMÉLIE, 1830 – PARIS, 1903)
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See original version (French)
70
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CAMILLE PISSARRO (CHARLOTTE – AMÉLIE, 1830 – PARIS, 1903)
Po…
See original version (French)
Estimate €180,000 - €230,000
Voluntary lot
Description
CAMILLE PISSARRO
(CHARLOTTE – AMÉLIE, 1830 – PARIS, 1903)
Portrait of the artist Ludovic Piette in front of his easel
1861
Oil on canvas
53.3 × 37.5 cm
signed and dated lower left: C. Pissarro ‘61
Provenance
Given by the artist to Ludovic Piette, Melleray, FR
Mlle. Fanny Levy, Paris
Sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, CH, 2 July 1971, no. 333
Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 28 November 1973, lot 21
Dr and Mrs Jordan H. Trafimow, USA
R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago (acquired from the above in 2000)
Acquired from the above, 1 January 2001; thence by descent within the family
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie Dru, Paintings and Gouaches by L. Piette, 2–25 March 1929
Chicago, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Pissarro to Picasso: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings and
Bronzes, 1995, no. 1
Chicago, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, ‘Seurat to Picasso’, 1998, no. 2
Bibliography
Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, *Camille Pissarro, son art-son oeuvre*, Paris, 1939,
vol. I, no. 25
Ralph E. Shikes & Paula Harper, *Pissarro, His Life and Work*, London, 1980, ill. p. 58
Janine Bailly-Herzberg, *Pissarro et Paris*, Paris, 1992, p. 42, ill. p. 43
Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, *Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings*,
vol. II, Paris 2005, no. 51, colour ill. p. 69
In this rare, intimate portrait, Camille Pissarro depicts his close friend and
colleague Ludovic Piette hard at work in his studio. Seated on a modest chair,
palette in hand, Piette is captured in a focused and natural pose, characteristic
of the poetic realism that Pissarro was developing at the time under the influence of Corot and Courbet.
This 1861 painting, predating the official birth of Impressionism, illustrates the
painter’s early years in a restrained and already highly personal style. One can see the attention
paid to light, to the spontaneity of the brushstroke, and to the truth of everyday life – qualities that
would characterise his entire career.
Piette, himself a painter, was a loyal supporter of Pissarro. Their friendship gave rise to
an extensive correspondence and other mutual portraits. The intimacy of this scene
links it to works held at the Musée d’Orsay, such as Renoir’s Portrait of Claude Monet
(1875) or Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio.
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