Camille Pissarro
Peasant Woman Carding Wool
1875
Paysanne démêlant de la laine
Oil on canvas
56 x 47 cm
Signed & dated lower left: C. Pissarro. 1875
Pissarro/Durand-Ruel 420
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings / Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vol., Milan, Paris, 2005
1Jean-Baptiste Faure Paris • 1875 until [d.] 1914 Purchased from the artist, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420; Notice sur la collection J.-B. Faure, suivie du catalogue formant cette collection, Paris 1902, no. 71.
2Louis-Maurice Faure Paris Son of the above, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420.
3Mme L.-M. Faure Paris Widow of the above, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420.
4Durand-Ruel New York • 1919 Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420
5Georges Petit Paris • 1919 Acquired from the above 1 February 1919, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420.
6Georges Bernheim Paris • 1919 Acquired from Georges Petit, Paris, 3 February 1919, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420.
7Sigmund Gildemeister Hamburg-Hochkamp & São Paulo • early 1920's until ca. 1950 Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420; Ulrich Luckhardt, «Kleines Lexikon der Hamburger Kunstsammler», in Private Schätze, Über das Sammeln von Kunst in Hamburg bis 1933, Ulrich Luckhardt, Uwe M. Schneede (ed.), Hamburg 2001, p. 225. A letter from Graphisches Kabinett Bremen to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 23 January 2008, states that the painting was with Gildemeister from the early 1920's and surmises a possible purchase of the painting from the Graphisches Kabinett.
8Alfred Schwabacher New York Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 420.
9Dr. Peter Nathan New York Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1954 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 8 May 1954, identifying Dr. Peter Nathan as the consignor.
10Emil Bührle Zurich • 13 July 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from Dr. Fritz Nathan, father of Dr. Peter Nathan, for $ 13.000, AStEGB, Payment order made by Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 9 July 1954 for the sum of $ 40.000 to be transferred to Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich. Attached to this payment order is a handwritten note by Emil Bührle, dated 9 July 1954 and listing 3 paintings with their resepective prices: «Renoir, Blumen, 24 / Pissarro, Strickerin, 13 / Vlaminck, Stillleben, 8» (Emil Bührle Collection Inv. 88, 119, 111) for a total sum of $ 45.000, from which $ 5.000 for are to be subtracted against return of a «Vlaminck, Intérieur»; Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 13 July 1954, confirming payment of $ 40.000 to Dr. Fritz Nathan. – For reasons which have not been clarified, the catalogue of the Bührle collection's exhibition published by the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1958 (no. 320) includes a «Madame Nathan, Basel (?)», and subsequently a «Galerie F. G. Fehse, Basel» in the provenance history of the painting. This information was repeated in the catalogues published by the Foundation in 1973/86 (no. 42) and in 2004/05 (no. 87), but no evidence survives in the Foundation's archive as to its source.
11Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 119.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings / Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vol., Milan, Paris, 2005
1904Camille Pissarro Galerie Durand-Ruel • Paris • 1904 no. 21.
1955Europäische Meister 1790–1910 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1955 no. 158.
1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 320.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 124.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 11.
1999Camille Pissarro Staatsgalerie • Stuttgart • 1999–2000 no. 24.
2002L'impressionismo e l'età di van Gogh Casa dei Carraresi • Treviso • 2002–03 no. 17.
2006Women in Impressionism, From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek • Copenhagen • 2006–07 no. 93.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 119.
2014Pissarro, Der Vater des Impressionismus Von der Heydt-Museum • Wuppertal • 2014–15 p. 251.
1890Janine Bailly-Herzberg (ed.) Correspondance de Camille Pissarro vol. 1, 1865–1885 • Paris • 1890 • pp. 99 (no. 41, n. 2; letter to Lucien Pissarro, 6 February 1896; 22003).
1902Notice sur la collection J.-B. Faure suivie du catalogue des tableaux formant cette collection Paris • 1902 • p. 73, no. 38.
1939Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro • Lionello Venturi Camille Pissarro, Son art, son œuvre Paris • 1939 • vol. 1, Texte, no. 270, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 54 (left; 21998 San Francisco).
1950Gotthard Jedlicka Pissarro Bern • 1950 • fig. 19.
1950Thadée Natanson Pissarro Lausanne • 1950 • fig. 19.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 42 (ill.; 21986).
1974John Rewald C. Pissarro Paris • 1974 • p. 57 (ill.).
1979Christopher Lloyd Pissarro London • 1979 • (21992, pp. 10, 28, 64–65 [ill.], no. 17).
1981Christopher Lloyd Camille Pissarro New York • 1981 • (French edition: Geneva 1981, p. 76 [ill.]).
1993Joachim Pissarro Camille Pissarro New York & London • 1993 • pp. 142, 146, fig. 147.
1993Stefano Roffo Camille Pissarro Genoa • 1993 • (ill.; French edition: Paris 1994).
1994Linda Doeser The Life and Works of Pissarro New York • 1994 • p. 34 (ill.).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 39 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2001Ulrich Luckhardt «Kleines Lexikon der Hamburger Kunstsammler» in Private Schätze, Über das Sammeln von Kunst in Hamburg bis 1933 Ulrich Luckhardt, Uwe M. Schneede (ed.) • Hamburg • 2001 • p. 225.
2004Bertram Schmidt Cézannes Lehre Cologne • 2004 • pp. 151–152, fig. 20.
2005Joachim Pissarro • Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Critical Catalogue of Paintings Milan & Paris • 2005 • vol. 2, no. 420 (ill.).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2, • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 87 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog; Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2011Richard R. Brettell Pissarro's People (exh. cat.) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (Massachusetts) etc. • Munich etc. • 2011 • p. 135, fig. 88.
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 402 (ill.).