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| The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon |
Artist:Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
Date:1899
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Katrin S. Vietor, in loving memory of Ernest G. Vietor, 1966
In December 1898 Pissarro wrote from Paris that he had "engaged an apartment at 204 rue de Rivoli, opposite 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, and the steeples of Sainte-Clotilde behind clumps of chestnut trees. It’s very beautiful. I shall have a fine series to paint." During the following winter and spring he painted eight cityscapes looking toward the Louvre, and six, like this one, of the Tuileries Gardens with Sainte-Clotilde in the background.
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, until 1951; purchased for $62,000 with 5 other works on February 21 by Knoedler and Pinakos]; [Knoedler, New York, and Pinakos, Inc., New York, 1951; Knoedler stock no. A545, 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)
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