id: 143983 accession number: 1968.357 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.357 updated: 2024-08-08 15:15:32.055000 Rue Damiette, Rouen, c. 1884. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Black chalk and watercolor on wove paper; sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1968.357 title: Rue Damiette, Rouen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1884 creation date earliest: 1879 creation date latest: 1889 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black chalk and watercolor on wove paper 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: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: Whatman wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, across bottom, in black crayon: C Pissarro Rue Daumiette à Rouen; watermark: JWhatman / Turkeyhill translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century opening date: 1977-10-26T04:00:00 From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD (organizer) (October 26-December 4, 1977); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (January 9-February 19, 1978); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (April 1-May 14, 1978). 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings. C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York (October 8-22, 1927).', 'opening_date': '1927-10-08T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, OH, donated to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: Before 1927-1968 footnotes: *
Loaned by Williams to an October 1927 exhibition at Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York.
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1968- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings. Exh. Cat. New York: C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, 1927. page number: Mentioned: no. 50 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970): 2-50. page number: Mentioned: p. 49; Reproduced: p. 49, no. 180 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307 De Leiris, Alain, and Carol Hynning Smith. From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. Exh. Cat. College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 183; Reproduced: p. 77, no. 132 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.357/1968.357_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.357/1968.357_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.357/1968.357_full.tif