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accession number: 1979.122
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Bather and Geese, 1895. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Etching and aquatint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of individual members of The Print Club of Cleveland for the sixtieth anniversary 1979.122
title: Bather and Geese
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creation date: 1895
creation date earliest: 1895
creation date latest: 1895
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creditline: Gift of individual members of The Print Club of Cleveland for the sixtieth anniversary
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: etching and aquatint
department: Prints
collection: PR - Etching
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Delteil vol.17, no.115
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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.
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state of the work: XI/XVI, proof (no.1 out of 5 proofs)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1979
opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
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: A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland
opening date: 2019-05-05T04:00:00
A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Theodore B. Donson, New York, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)
date: ?-1979
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Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1979
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1979-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 85, p. 79
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.122/1979.122_web.jpg
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