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Camille Pissarro
1830-1903
A Canal Lock with Poplars
Black chalk on paper.
3 1/4 x 6 5/16 inches (82 x 160 mm)
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2009.250
Notes:
This drawing might be a depiction of the lock at Pontoise, a location on the river Oise just north of Paris that also inspired four of Pissarro's oil paintings (Ralph E. Shikes, Pissarro, his life and work. New York: 1980, p. 79). Pissarro moved to Pontoise after he returned to England following the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71. In Pontoise, Pissarro worked alongside Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Mary Cassatt (1845-1926), and Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). This sheet is signed at the lower right corner with the artist's initials.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right in black ink, "C.P."; inscribed at lower left in red chalk, "50 [encircled"
Provenance:
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles; from which acquired by Joseph F. McCrindle, New York, 6 July 1980 (McCrindle collection no. A0812).
Associated names:
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge booksellers, Los Angeles, dealer
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
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