Camille Pissarro
The Road to Osny at Pontoise, Hoar Frost
1873
Route d'Osny à Pontoise, gelée blanche
Oil on canvas
50 x 65 cm
Signed & dated lower left: C. Pissarro 1873
Pissarro/Durand-Ruel 287
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings / Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vol., Milan, Paris, 2005
Provenance
1Dr. Georges Viau Paris • by 1907 Catalogue des tableaux modernes, pastels et aquarelles […] composant la collection de M. Georges Viau, (sale cat.) Durand-Ruel, Paris (4 March 1907), no. 47.
2Marquise de Ganay Paris • 1907 until at least 1928 Acquired at the above sale for FF 2.200, Copy of annotated sale cat. as above, n. (1), in the library of the Collection Oskar Reinhart «Am Römerholz», Winterthur; Tableaux par Camille Pissarro, (exh. cat.) Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris 1928, not in cat.; Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 287.
3Mlle de Bayser Paris • until 1948 Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 287.
4Georges Wildenstein Paris • 1948–1953 Acquired from the above, Pissarro/Durand-Ruel no. 287; AStEGB, Invoice (Transcript) from Société Anonyme de Beaux-Arts, Vaduz [Wildenstein], made out to Emil Bührle, 13 July 1953, for 7 pictures, including Pissarro, Route d'Osny, for a total amount of $ 255.000 (+ 1 separate invoice for an 8th painting at $ 105.000).
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 4 August 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Invoice as above, n. (4); AStEGB, Correspondence between Emil Bührle and Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 29–31 July 1953, regarding payment of $ 360.000 to Société Anonyme de Beaux-Arts, Vaduz for 8 paintings, including Pissarro, Route d'Osny; Letter from Société Anonyme de Beaux-Arts, Vaduz, to Emil Bührle, 4 August 1953, acknowledging receipt of the above amount.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 118.
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
Exhibitions
1907Camille Pissarro Galerie Eugène Blot • Paris • 1907 no. 5.
1928Tableaux par Camille Pissarro Galerie Durand-Ruel • Paris • 1928 not in cat.
1954Werke der französischen Malerei und Grafik des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Privat- und Museumsbesitz Museum Folkwang (Villa Hügel) • Essen • 1954 no. 73
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. 192.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 19.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 122.
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 20.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 118.
2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 24.
2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 11.
References
1925Waldemar George «La collection Viau, I, La peinture moderne» in L'Amour de l'art (6) • 1925 • p. 370.
1939Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro • Lionello Venturi Camille Pissarro, Son art, son œuvre Paris • 1939 • vol. 1, Texte, no. 208, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 42 (upper left; 21998 San Francisco).
1971Charles Kunstler Camille Pissarro Milan • 1971 (French edition: 1974, p. 76 [ill.]).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 41 (ill.; 21986).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 86 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2005Joachim Pissarro • Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Critical Catalogue of Paintings Milan & Paris • 2005 • vol. 2, no. 287 (ill.).
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. 297 (ill.).