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Camille Pissarro

French, 1830–1903

The Artist's Palette with a Landscape

c. 1878–80

Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 9 9/16 x 13 11/16 in. (24.3 x 34.7 cm) Framed (plexi box): 13 x 17 x 3 1/4 in. (33 x 43.2 x 8.3 cm)
Object Number 1955.827
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Camille Pissarro, The Artist's Palette with a Landscape, c. 1878–80, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.827

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Levitov, Karen and Richard Shiff. Camille Pissarro : Impressions of City & Country. The Jewish Museum, September 15, 2007-February. 3, 2008. New York: Jewish Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. 2007. . Miracle de la Couleur: Impressionisme en Post-impressionisme. Zwolle, Waanders Uitgevers inassocation with Kunsthal Rotterdam. 2003. 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. Geffroy, Gustave. Claude Monet, sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris: G. Cres & Cie. 1922. Faber Birren.. "Modern Palettes and Techniques." History of Color in Painting.. New York: Reinhold.. 1965.. 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. Richard Shiff.. Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.. 1984.. 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. David Bomford, Jo Kirby, John Leighton, Ashok Roy. Art in the Making: Impressionism.. London: National Gallery (exh.cat. Nov. 28, 1990-Apr. 21, 1991).. Janine Bailly-Herzberg, ed.. Correspondence de Camille Pissarro, 5: 1899-1903.. Paris: Ed. du Valhermeil.. 1991.. John Gage.. Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1993.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Trevor Lamb & Janice Bourriau.. Colour: Art & Science.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.. 1995.. Johannes Kirschenmann and Frank Schulz.. Praktiken der Modernen Kunst.. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag.. 1996.. Richard Shiff.. "To Move the Eyes: Impressionism, Symbolism, Well-Being, c. 1891." in Richard Hobbs, ed., Impressions of French Modernity.. Manchester: Manchester University Press.. 1998.:pp. 190-210.. Richard Schiff.. Paul Cézanne. Rizzoli Art Series.. New York: Rizzoli.. n.d.. Richard Shiff.. "'Il faut que les yeux soient 130mus': impressionnisme et symbolisme vers 1891.". 96.. Revue de l'art.. (1992).:pp. 24-30.. Jonathan Stephenson.. Paint with the Impressionists.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1995.. Christopher Willard.. "Mixing It Up: Palettes.". 64:698.. American Artist.. (Sept. 2000):pp. 10-13.. Callen, Anthea. The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity. London: Yale University Press. 2000. Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, Son Art, Son Oeuvre. 2 volumes. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939. Maloon, Terence, et al. Camille Pissarro. Exhibition catalogue. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales; London: Thames & Hudson, 2005 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.

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Provenance

The artist, sold to Laplace; Laplace, Paris; Auguste Boulin, [Paris?] (until 1934, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 30 Nov. 1934);¹ [Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1934–35, sold to Clark, 9 Aug. 1935, as Paysans près d’une charette]; Robert Sterling Clark (1935–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Information from Durand-Ruel Archives. See correspondence of 24 Apr. 2001 in the Clark’s curatorial file.

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