Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (lower left): C.Pissarro.99
Gallery Label In December 1898 Pissarro wrote from Paris that he had "engaged an apartment at 204 rue de Rivoli, facing the Tuileries, with a superb view of the Garden, the Louvre to the left, in the background the houses on the quays behind the trees, to the right the Dôme des Invalides, the steeples of Ste. Clothilde behind the solid mass of chestnut trees. It is very beautiful. I shall paint a fine series." He painted five views of the Tuileries Gardens that are very similar to this one, and eight looking toward the Louvre. Pissarro continued to work on all fourteen canvases through the spring. In late May he sent eleven to his dealer Durand-Ruel.
Provenance Camille Pissarro, Paris (1899; given by the artist on January 29 to Alfred Sisley's children to assist them after their father's death; their sale, Georges Petit, Paris, May 1, no. 68, as "Les Tuileries, après-midi d'hiver," for Fr 4,800 to Durand-Ruel and Bernheim-Jeune); [Durand-Ruel and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1899–at least 1900; Durand-Ruel's share sold to Bernheim-Jeune on February 24, 1900]; Lazare Weiller, Paris (until 1901; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 29, no. 35, as "Les Tuileries, après-midi d'hiver," ill. [engraving by André Marty], for Fr 3,650); [Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, from 1917; purchased in May]; Léon Pedron, Le Havre (until 1926; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 2, no. 42, as "Le Jardin des Tuileries," ill., to Druet); [Druet, Paris, 1926–30; sold in March 1930]; [?Eisenl., until 1930; sold for fl. 15,000 to Van Beuningen ]; D. G. van Beuningen, Rotterdam (from 1930); Mme de Mauge-van Beuningen, Paris; [Otto Wertheimer, Paris, in 1951; part share purchased on Feb. 21 by Knoedler]; [Knoedler, New York, 1951; sold on April 10, for $16,000 to Vietor]; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Vietor, New York and Greenwich, Conn. (1951–his d. 1959); Katrin S. (Mrs. Ernest G.) Vietor, New York and Greenwich, Conn. (1959–66)
Exhibition History Paris. Galerie Durand-Ruel. "Exposition C. Pissarro," January 14–February 2, 1901, no. 11.
Paris. Galeries Durand-Ruel. "L'œuvre de Camille Pissarro," April 7–30, 1904, no. 112.
Paris. Bernheim-Jeune. "Camille Pissarro," April 13–25, 1908, no. 13.
Paris. château de Bagatelle. "Exposition des peintres de jardins des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles," June–July 1928, no. 72.
Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. "Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten," September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 247.
London. Matthiesen Gallery. "A Camille Pissarro Exhibition," June 28–July 25, 1950, no. 31.
Paris. Galerie André Weil. "Exposition Pissarro," June 1–27, 1950, no. 33.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition," December 12, 1974–February 10, 1975, not in catalogue.
References Camille Pissarro. Letter to Lucien Pissarro . December 4, 1898 [published and translated in John Rewald, ed., "Camille Pissarro Letters to His Son Lucien," London, 1980, p. 333].Letter to Lucien Pissarro . April 12, 1899 [translated and reprinted in John Rewald, "Camille Pissarro: Letters to his Son Lucien," London, 1980; p. 335].Le Journal des arts (January 26, 1901), p. 1 [excerpt translated and published in Ref. Snollaerts 2005, p. 783].Trente années de lutte pour l'art: 1884–1914 . Brussels, 1926, ill. opp. 314.Camille Pissarro, son art—son œuvre . reprint ed. 1989. Paris, 1939, vol. 1, p. 234, no. 1098; vol. 2, pl. 219, no. 1098.Camille Pissarro . New York, 1982, p. 17.in Retrospective Camille Pissarro . Exh. cat., Isetan Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1984, p. 139, under no. 62.Pissarro et Paris . Paris, 1992, pp. 26, 106–7, ill.The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings . Exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art. New Haven, 1992, pp. 108, 213, no. 70, colorpl. 77.Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg . Exh. cat.New York, 1995, p. 165, ill.in Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings . Milan, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 286–88, 290, 299, 304.in Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings . Milan, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 45, 59 n. 314, pp. 365–67, 375–76, 387, 428; vol. 3, pp. 782–84, 955, 959, no. 1260, ill. (color).in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, p. 91.in The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920 . Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York, 2007, p. 77.
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