Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1830-1903

Title

Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich

Date of Production

1871

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 44.5 cm (canvas)
Width: 72.5 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1948.SC.317

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Label Text

Painted from a footbridge spanning the railroad tracks, this view shows a train leaving a recently built station in south London. Camille Pissarro fled Paris with his family in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War and remained in London for over a year, painting the city and its outlying areas. Although the landscape depicted here was being transformed from open countryside to built-up suburbs, it is strangely devoid of people. Pissarro originally included a man on the grassy slope on the right but later painted him out.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom right & recto : : C. Pissarro 1871

Provenance

Purchased from the artist in London in 1871 by Jules Berthel; Alexandre Rosenberg, Paris; Lazare Weiler, Paris; Weiler Sale, Paris, 29 November 1901 (lot 34); Adolf Tavernier, Paris; Pearson, Paris; Pearson Sale, Berlin, 18 October 1927 (lot 53); Anonymous Sale, Paris, 23 June 1928 (lot 82); Schoeller, Paris; Leon Morot, Paris; Durand-Ruel, Paris 12 June 1929 (from Leon Morot); Arthur Tooth & Sons, London 1936 (from Durand-Ruel); purchased by Samuel Courtauld, June 1936 (from Tooth & Sons); Courtauld Bequest, 1948

Exhibition History

The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 14/06/2025-28/09/2025; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, 26/10/2025-08/02/2026
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
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Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile 1870 – 1904, Tate Britain, London, 02/11/2017-03/02/2018
The Artist and the Railway, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 18/04/2008-10/08/2008
Camille Pissarro - The Evolution of an Impressionist, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 11/02/2007-13/05/2007
Camille Pissarro in London, National Gallery, London, 14/05/2003-03/08/2003
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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