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The Banks of the Marne in Winter
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)LinkedCulture matchlcp-4ce3f30e0a43
- Date
- 1866
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 6005
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This painting of a rural winter landscape is resolutely un-picturesque. Its dark color palette is uninterrupted by any majestic natural elements, such as towering trees or a glittering pond. Even early in his career, Camille Pissarro subverted traditional landscape painting by deliberately diverging from the pastoral scenes of his mentor, Camille Corot . In this large, rectangular canvas, Pisarro applied paint heavily, often using a palette knife, in emulation of Gustave Courbet , whose work is on view nearby. Just a few years after he made this work, Pissarro adopted a more immediate approach to landscape painting, working en plein air (outdoors) directly from nature rather than in a studio, a technique closely associated with the Impressionists.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- The artist (d. 1903); by descent to his son, Paul-Émile Pissarro, Paris, 1904 [per Pissarro and Snollaerts 2005]; sold Pissarro sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 3, 1928, lot 27 to Jacques Dubourg, Paris, for 35,000 francs [per annotated copy of sale cat. Galerie Georges Petit 1928, copy in curatorial object file]. S.G. Archibald, Paris, by February 1930 [per Musée de l’Orangerie 1930]. Possibly Dr. Tom John Honeyman, Glasgow, after February 1930 [this and the following per S. Martin Summers, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 6, 2000, curatorial object file]; Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, 1951; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, November 7, 1957.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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