id: 74228 accession number: 2020.113 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.113 updated: 2025-06-18 11:14:25.117000 Fishmarket, 1902. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Oil on canvas; unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.113 title: Fishmarket title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1902 creation date earliest: 1902 creation date latest: 1902 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting 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: Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated lower left: 1902 C. Pissarro translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Inaugural Exposition of French Art. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (1915).', 'opening_date': '1915-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (May 14-July 10,1960).', 'opening_date': '2014-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Treasured Masterpieces of the XIXth Century Painting. Galerie Fujikawa, Osaka; Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo (1973).', 'opening_date': '1973-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Western Painting and Modern Western Style Painting in Japan: One Century from Imitation to Creation. Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan (August 15-September 26,1986).', 'opening_date': '2015-08-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (March 12-July 16, 2000); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa (August 13-November 26, 2000); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (January 6-March 11, 2001); Royal Academy of Arts, London (June 30-September 23, 2001); Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (November 3, 2001-January 6, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2000-03-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'XIXth and XXth Century Master Paintings and Sculpture. Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY (March 1-May 1, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2002-03-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Possibly Georges Petit [1856-1920] Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: (possibly sold to dealer Duval-Fleury, Paris, France, February 14, 1918) date: 1918 footnotes: *
Provenance until 1918 is according to Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings (Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), vol. III, p. 879, cat. no. 1439. 

Wilhelm Hansen was known to work with Duval-Fleury on other art purchases and may have bought this painting directly from the French dealer. See: Denys Sutton, “The Degas Sales and England,” Burlington Magazine 131, no. 1033 (April 1989), pp. 266-272. 
citations: Wilhelm Hansen [1868-1936] Copenhagen, Denmark, sold to Baron Kojiro Matsudata date: 1918–1923 footnotes: citations: Baron Kojiro Matsukata [1865–1950] Kobe, Japan, sold to the 15th Bank of Japan date: 1923–1927 footnotes: *
In 1927, Baron Matsukata was forced to dispose of his own property to sustain his company through an economic crisis. See: Libby Horner, “The collection of Kojiro Matsukata (1865-1950) The fire at the London Pantechnicon in 1939,” The British Art Journal 19, no. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 84-90. According to the 2003 Sotheby’s sale catalogue, the 5th Bank of Japan owned the painting until 1928.
citations: The 15th Bank, Tokyo, Japan date: 1927–1928 footnotes: citations: Kyuzaemon Wada [1890–1968] Osaka, Japan date: after 1928–before 1971 footnotes: citations: (Fujikawa Galleries, Tokyo, Japan, sold to Private Collection) date: 1971–1974 footnotes: *
Provenance 1918-2003 is according to the 2003 Sotheby’s sale catalogue. 
citations: (sold at Sotheby’s, New York, NY, November 5, 2003, lot 5) date: 2003 footnotes: citations: (Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: 2004 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2004–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Catalogue, Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, 1924-1925. San Francisco: Press of the James H. Barry, 1924-1925. page number: Mentioned: P. 20, no. 46; Reproduced: no. 46 url: Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro; son art--son œuvre. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939. page number: Mentioned: Vol. 1, p. 254, no. 1249; Reproduced: Vol. 2, pl. 244, no. 1249 url: Matsukata korekushon meisaku senbatsuten zuroku. Tokyo: Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, 1960. page number: Reproduced: no. 105 url: Shizuoka Kenritsu Bijutsukan. Kindai Nihon no yōga to seiyō: mohō to sōzō no isseiki (Western painting and modern Western style painting in Japan: One century from imitation to creation). Shizuoka-shi, Japan: Shizuoka Kenritsu Bijutuskan, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 80, no. 38 url: Brettell, Richard, Joachim Pissarro, and Mary Anne Stevens. The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p. 191, no. 143 url: Acquavella Galleries. XIX & XX Century Master Paintings and Sculpture: An Exhibition, March 18th to April 27th, 2002. New York: Acquavella Galleries, 2002. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: Pl. 6 url: Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: critical catalogue of paintings. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: Vol. III, P. 879, no. 1439 url: “A Historic Gift. Longtime CMA supporters Joseph and Nancy Keithley give 114 works, the largest gift in more than 60 years.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 3 (Summer 2020): Cover, 6-9. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8. url: Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 97, no. 8; mentioned: P. 93 url: "Exhibitions: Transformative Gift." Art & Antiques XLV, no. 10 (November 2022): 48-53. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 52 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.113/2020.113_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.113/2020.113_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.113/2020.113_full.tif