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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Camille Pissarro

La Batterie à Montfoucault

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate


Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903


La Batterie à Montfoucault

signed C. Pissarro and dated 83 (lower left)

oil on canvas

12 ⅞ by 16 ⅛ in.

32.5 by 41 cm.

Executed in 1883.

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 March 1938, lot 128

Galerie Raphaël Gérard, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Galerie Tanner, Zurich (acquired from the above on 10 March 1938)

M. Paulin, Paris

M. Picard, Paris

Galerie Schmit, Paris

M. and Mme. Roger Altieri, Marseilles (acquired from the above in 1979)

Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris (acquired from the above in 1989)

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 1991, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. II, Paris, 2005, no. 720, pp. 478-79, illustrated in color

Philadelphia Museum of Art (on extended loan in 2010)