Auction on
22 November 2019 - 14:00 (CET) -
Salle 6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
At L'Hermitage, near Pontoise, where he stayed from 1866 to 1868 and after the 1870 war, Camille Pissarro celebrated working the land, as witness this recently discovered painting, which now joins the corpus of the eldest Impressionist.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Le Jardin de Maubuisson, l'Hermitage, Pontoise, ca. 1878-1880, oil on canvas, 38 x 45.5 cm. Estimate: €100,000/120,000
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Le Jardin de Maubuisson, l'Hermitage, Pontoise, ca. 1878-1880, oil on canvas, 38 x 45.5 cm. Estimate: €100,000/120,000
Since the catalogue raisonné of Camille Pissarro's paintings was published in 2005, fewer than ten have been added. This Jardin de Maubuisson , l'Hermitage à Pontoise is one of the happy few, and the only one with this subject. It all started a year and a half ago, when a customer brought the picture to the Ader auction house's Nicolas Nouvelet. Though unsigned and undated, it had been exhibited between 5 and 20 November 1929 at the Simonson gallery in Rue Caumartin, Paris under no. 52, with the title Le Potager , and was attributed to Jean-François Raffaëlli…
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