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Camille Pissarro
French, 1830–1903
The River Oise near Pontoise
1873
Pissarro made several paintings featuring the factory located across the river from his home in Pontoise. Although the buildings caused considerable changes to the landscape and river, the artist presents them here as harmoniously integrated into the setting. The artist's technique—his use of quick touches of color to record the brilliant light and the flowers in the foreground—is as modern as his subject matter.
Image Caption
Camille Pissarro, The River Oise near Pontoise, 1873, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.554
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/8 x 21 15/16 in. (46 x 55.7 cm)
Frame: 26 7/8 x 30 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (68.3 x 77.5 x 8.6 cm)
Object Number
1955.554
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
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An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. London: Marlborough Fine Arts Gallery.. Pissarro in England. cat. by John Russell.. June-July 1968.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. . Drawing from Nature.. Mineapolis (MN): Art Instruction Schools.. 1972.. John Russell.. The Meanings of Modern Art.. New York: Museum of Modern Art.. 1974.. Bellony-Rewald, Alice. The Lost World of the Impressionists. Boston: New York Graphic Society. 1976. Richard Rubson Bretell.. Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape.. Yale University Ph.D. diss., Dec. 1977; Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.. 1978.. Patricia Leach Krouse. cat. entry for Pissarro, Pontoise on the Banks of the Oise, in S. Lane Faison, Jr., Williams College Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collection.. Williamstown.. 1979. Nathaniel Harris.. A Treasury of Impressionism.. Feltham: Hamlyn Group.. 1979.. Ralph E. Shikes and Paula Harper.. Pissarro: His Life and Work.. New York: Horizon Press.. c. 1980.. Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London.. Camille Pissarro 1820-1903. Oct. 30, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Grand Palais, Paris, Jan. 30-April 27, 1981; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19-Aug. 9, 1981.. 1980.. Marina Vaizey.. "Camille Pissarro, Poet of the Ordinary.". III.. Portfolio.. (1981).:pp. 3, 54-61.. Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981. Faison, S. Lane, Jr. The Art Museums of New England: Massachusetts. Vol. 2. Revised edition of Faison, Guide to the Art Museums of New England, 1958. Godine Guide 3. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Richard R. Bretell.. Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape.. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.. 1990.. Calo, Carole Gold, and Barbara Shissler Nosanow. Impressionism and Post Impressionism: The Collector's Passion. Exhibition catalogue. Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, 1991. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Martin Reid.. Pissarro.. London: Studio Editions.. 1993.. Francis Frascina et al.. Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century.. New Haven: Yale University Press, with the Open University.. 1993.. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.. Manet and His Time. March 29-July 10, 1994. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Robert Boardingham.. Impressionist Masterpieces in American Museums.. Southport (Ct.): Hugh Lauter Levin.. 1996.. Anonymous. "Nineteenth-Century Painting and Sculpture." The Magazine Antiques 152 (October 1997): 522–31. Becker, Christoph, Wolf Eiermann, Ralph Melcher, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Camille Pissarro. Exhibition catalogue. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje-Cantz, 1999. National Gallery, London. Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890. Nov. 1, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, March 2-May 20, 2001; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Jun. 16-Sep. 9, 2001. 2000. (Clark only). Christie's, New York. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art Sale. May 8, 2000. 2000. Fried, Michael. Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin. Yale University Press. 2002:p. 81. House, John. Impressionism: Paint and Politics. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press, 2004. Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue pf Paintings. Vol. I-III. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications. 2005. Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman. Nineteenth-century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Published for The Norton Simon Art Foundation by Yale University Press. 2006. . Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale- June 20, 2006. Christie's Catalogue. Christie's Manson & Woods. 06/01/2006. Conforti, Michael, et al. The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven: distributed by Yale University Press, 2006. Brettell, Richard R. and Joachim Pissarro. 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Provenance
Maurice Rémy, Paris (in 1928);¹ Édition Garcin, Paris (by 1936); [Jacques Lindon, New York, probably by Sept. 1941, sold to Salz];² [Sam Salz, New York, sold to Durand-Ruel, 3 Dec. 1942.]; [Durand-Ruel, New York, sold to Clark, 3 Feb. 1945]; Robert Sterling Clark (1945–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. In a letter to the Clark dated 28 Aug. 1979, Charles Durand-Ruel states that this painting was deposited with Durand-Ruel Paris on 28 Feb. 1928 by “a Mr. Rémy, and returned to him after being photographed.” He also notes that Durand-Ruel, New York, bought the painting from Sam Salz in 1942 and sold it to Clark in 1945. There is no invoice from Durand-Ruel to Clark for this painting.
2. According to the New York Times, the Gallery of Modern Art opened in Sept. 1941 with Jacques Lindon as its president. The initial display included a painting by Pissarro called Bank of Oise, which is likely to be the Clark painting. See Edward Alden Jewell, "Modern Gallery Shows Varied Art," New York Times, 17 Sept. 1941, p. 26.