Place Lafayette, Rouen

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1830-1903

Title

Place Lafayette, Rouen

Date of Production

1883

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 46.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 55.7 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.319

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Label Text

This is one of 17 paintings produced by Camille Pissarro in 1883, during his first visit to the northern French city of Rouen, which he declared to be as beautiful as Venice. Pissarro shunned the typical picturesque vistas offered from the surrounding hills, seen on the horizon. He was excited instead by the city’s industrial life, particularly the ‘workers on the quays, boats, smoke, mist in the distance’, which he captured here from the balcony of a café
overlooking the Seine. Sunlight and shadow are conveyed in sharply hatched brushstrokes.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom left & recto : : C. Pissarro, 1883

Provenance

Private Collection, Berlin; Paul Cassirer, Berlin; purchased by Samuel Courtauld, Berlin, September or October 1926; Samuel Courtauld gift, 1932

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, London, 17/09/2018-20/01/2019
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Pissarro and the Harbours, Musee Malraux & Le Havre & France, 27/04/2013-29/09/2013
A City for Impressionism - Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin in Rouen, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 04/06/2010-26/09/2010
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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