Camille Pissarro
French, 1830–1903
Landscape at Saint-Charles, near Gisors, Sunset
1891
For a brief period in the late 1880s, Pissarro experimented with the technique known as divisionism or pointillism, pioneered by younger artists like Georges Seurat. This involved applying small touches of two different colors side by side, which were intended to produce a third, more luminous color for the viewer. Here Pissarro modified the technique, using slightly broader brushstrokes to suggest the glowing late-day light in the countryside near his rural home.
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 31 7/8 x 25 9/16 in. (81 x 65 cm) Frame: 39 5/8 x 33 13/16 in. (100.6 x 85.9 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.524 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Camille Pissarro, Landscape at Saint-Charles, near Gisors, Sunset, 1891, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.524
Select Bibliography
Paris: Galeries Durand-Ruel.. Exposition Camille Pissarro.. Feb. 1892..
Paris; Galeries Durand-Ruel.. Exposition de Tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley.. April 1899..
Paris; Galeries Durand-Ruel.. Tableaux et Gouaches par Camille Pissarro.. Jan. 10-26, 1910..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956.
Wildenstein & Company. 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.
Williams College Musuem of Art.. Maurice Prendergast in Context. Sept. 15-Nov. 25, 1990.
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.
Christopher Lloyd.. Pissarro.. Geneva: Skira/Rizzoli.. 1981..
Mukherjee, Sushil. "Treasure of the Clark Museum." Berkshire Magazine (Winter 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.
Thomson, Richard. Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labor. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Herbert Press; New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1990.
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..
Kern, Steven, et al. A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 19161951. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1996
Robert Boardingham.. Impressionist Masterpieces in American Museums.. Southport (Ct.): Hugh Lauter Levin.. 1996..
London: Christie's.. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art.. June 28, 2000..
Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, Son Art, Son Oeuvre. 2 volumes. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939.
Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue pf Paintings. Vol. I-III. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications. 2005.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.
Melikian, Souren. "A Unique and Unforgettable Collection." International Herald Tribune, 16–17 September 2000.
Clarke, Michael. "Review of Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labor: Glasgow, Burrell Collection, Camille Pissarro." Exhibition Reviews. The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1047 (June 1990): 427–29.
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Provenance
The artist, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 12 Sept. 1891; [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, 1891–1933, sold to Clark 11 Feb. 1933, as Paysage, St. Charles]; Robert Sterling Clark (1933–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
