id: 172948 accession number: 1947.2609 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.2609 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:47.242000 The Cowherdess, Eragny, 1886. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Crayon; sheet: 43.6 x 29.1 cm (17 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1947.2609 title: The Cowherdess, Eragny title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1886 creation date earliest: 1886 creation date latest: 1886 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: crayon department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) - artist Camille Pissarro's parents ran a general merchandise business on St. Thomas. After attending boarding school in Paris, Pissarro returned to the West Indies to work for his father from 1847 until 1852. As an artist he was largely self-taught, receiving some instruction from Fritz Melbye (1826-1896), a Danish artist with whom he traveled to Venezuela in 1852. When Pissarro returned to Paris in 1855, he shared a studio with Anton Melbye (1818-1875), Fritz's brother, and with David Jacobsen (1821-1871). He took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1856 and three years later attended the Académie Suisse, where he befriended artists such as Cézanne (q.v.), Monet (q.v.), and Guillaumin (q.v.). Corot (q.v.) encouraged him to paint landscapes around Paris, and he was listed as Corot's pupil in the catalogues of the Salons of 1864 and 1865. He had met Julie Vellay in 1860, with whom he would have eight children; they married in 1871. Pissarro exhibited regularly at the Salons from 1859 to 1870, although his work received little attention and he sold hardly anything. In 1866 he settled in Pontoise, often returning to Paris where he kept a studio. He frequented Émile Zola's "Thursdays" (weekly literary gatherings) and associated with Manet's (q.v.) artistic circle that gathered in the Café Guerbois. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Pissarro fled with his family, first to Montfoucault and then to London, where he worked with Monet and Daubigny (q.v.) and was introduced to the dealer Durand-Ruel. In 1872 he returned to Pontoise, where he painted with Cézanne. Around 1869 Pissarro began painting in a purely impressionist style, and in 1874 he helped organize the first impressionist exhibition. He moved to Éragny-sur-Epte in 1884, where he came into contact with Seurat (q.v.) and Paul Signac (1863-1935) and subsequently began to work in a pointillist style. He eventually found this technique too limiting, and returned to an impressionist mode, often working in series. By the end of his career his landscapes and depictions of city life sold well, and in 1892 he was given a retrospective exhibition at Durand-Ruel. By now, the artist had developed strongly anarchist convictions. Pissarro not only painted and made drawings, he also experimented with etching and lithography. --- measurements: Sheet: 43.6 x 29.1 cm (17 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) modern laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left, in blue crayon: 39A translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Impressionist Aesthetic opening date: 1982-08-10T04:00:00 The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School opening date: 1987-03-17T05:00:00 The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-May 17, 1987). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Nineteenth Century Master Drawings. Newark Museum (March 16 - April 30, 1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-03-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Treasures on Paper (May 10-July 24, 1988).', 'opening_date': '1988-05-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, National Schools of Style (June 14-Sep. 18, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1983-06-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism (1980), pp. 35, 38-9, illus.', 'opening_date': '1980-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-05-31T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file).', 'opening_date': '1975-07-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; re-opened Mar. 16, 1971).', 'opening_date': '1970-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Bloomington, Indiana University Fine Arts Museum, Nineteenth Century French Drawings (cat.: The Academic Tradition) (June 19-Aug. 1968), no. 78, illus.', 'opening_date': '2019-06-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 19th and 20th Century Drawings (Feb. 19-Mar. 24, 1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-02-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, A Generation of Draughtsmen (or, French Drawings of the 1880s?) (Apr. 22 (or 25?)-May 29, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-05-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" ("rearranged Jan. 21, 1953").', 'opening_date': '1953-01-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE estate of the artist (Lugt Suppl. 613a, lower right, in black ink). Lucien Pissarro, London (according to department card and Shoolman and Slatkin 1950, p. 170) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 603 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n112 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 174 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n198 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 174 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n198 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 215 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n235 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.2609/1947.2609_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.2609/1947.2609_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.2609/1947.2609_full.tif