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Camille Pissarro
1830-1903
A Cow and Peasant. Verso: Study of a Cow.
Black chalk on paper; verso: black chalk.
4 3/16 x 6 5/16 inches (106 x 161 mm)
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2009.254
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This drawing is stylistically and thematically related to two sheets depicting cows in the Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford (Richard R. Brettell and Christopher Lloyd, A catalogue of the drawings by Camille Pissarro in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford: 1980, pp. 154-155, no. 168J and p. 191, no. 277A).

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower right in black ink, "C.P."

Provenance: 
The Leicester Galleries, London; from which acquired by Joseph F. McCrindle, New York, June 1958 (McCrindle collection no. A0814).
Associated names: 

McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
The Leicester Galleries, London, former owner.

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Pissarro, Camille
School: 
French
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints