Camille Pissarro
The Road to Versailles, Louveciennes, Snow
ca. 1870
La Route de Versailles, Louveciennes, neige
Oil on canvas
43.5 x 65.5 cm
Signed lower right: C. Pissarro
Pissarro/Durand-Ruel 142
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings / Catalogue critique des peintures, 3 vol., Milan, Paris, 2005
Provenance
1Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. London • by 1937 Paintings and Drawings by Camille Pissarro, (exh. cat.) Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London 1937, no. 4.
2Regina Thürlimann Zurich • ca. 1937 until [d.] 1957 Pissarro/Durand-Ruel, no. 142
3Private collection Switzerland By descent from the above, Impressionist and Modern Art, (sale cat.) Christie's New York, 6 November 2002, no. 4.
4Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 18 November 2002 Inv. 173. Acquired at the above sale for $ 2.759.500 (= CHF 4.139.250), Invoice from Christie's, New York, made out to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, 2 November 2002; Confirmation of transfer of the above sum, made out by Privatbank Ihag Zürich AG, Settlement date 18 November 2002.
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
1937Paintings and Drawings by Camille Pissarro Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. • London • 1937 no. 4.
2006Turner e gli impressionisti, La grande storia del paesaggio moderno in Europa Museo di Santa Giulia • Brescia • 2006–07 no. 136.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 173.
2017Camille Pissarro, Le premier des impressionnistes / The First among the Impressonists Musée Marmottan Monet • Paris • 2017 no. 12.
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. 23.
2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 12.
References
1939Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro • Lionello Venturi Camille Pissarro, Son art, son œuvre Paris • 1939 • vol. 1, Texte, no. 142, vol. 2, Planches, fig. 29 (middle left; 21998 San Francisco).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 85 (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. 142 (ill.).