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Market at Gisors (recto); Counterproof of two standing men (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1830-1903

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1885

Medium

graphite (recto and verso) on wove paper; tears and rust stains on left edge suggest this was removed from a sketchbook

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 16.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.236

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Pissarro made hundreds of sketches, which provided him with motifs for paintings and woodcuts. This spontaneous yet conscientiously composed study may be connected to a gouache and a watercolour of 1885 depicting a farmer’s market at the small town of Gisors. By choosing a low viewpoint, and by showing most figures from the back, the artist lets the viewer participate in the lively atmosphere of the busy market, attended mainly by women, who crowd around an unknown object of desire.

Provenance

S. Kende (Vienna); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, Vienna and then London (1901-1978), "a long time before the last war" (as Seilern recorded in his 1961 catalogue, saying all records of this sale have been lost); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Courtauld Connects Regional Programme, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 13/11/2020-16/05/2021

Special Display - French Drawings of the 19th century, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 08/02/2008-12/06/2008

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the
Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/05/1988-04/09/1988

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 236
pl. LXI
dated c. 1884

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed and located by the artist: “C.P. / Gisors / marché”. Verso: upper right, graphite, enclosed in a box, now erased: “3 0”; centre, graphite: “n 15”; lower centre, graphite, unclear: “resente” [?]; lower centre, graphite: “2”.

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