Camille Pissarro
Hoar-Frost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire, 1888
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Oil on canvas, 92,8 x 92,5 cm
Signed and dated lower right: C. Pissarro. 1888
Inv.-no. MB-Pis-02
In the 1880s Camille Pissarro painted idealized images of rural life. Here, two peasant children are warming themselves at a brushwood fire on a cold winter’s morning. The transparent volumes of the clouds of smoke consist of a grid of brushstrokes, while the landscape and figures are painted with dots in the style of Neo-Impressionism.
Sixième exposition annuelle des XX, Musée d’Art Moderne, Brussels, 1889, no. 4
Französische Meister, Galerie Miethke, Vienna, 1913/14, no. 4
Fransk Maleskunst fra det 19e Aarhundrede, Dansk Kunstmuseums Forening, Copenhagen, 1914, no. 162
Tableaux, pastels et gouaches par Camille Pissarro, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1921, no. 25
Tableaux par Camille Pissarro, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, February 27–March 10, 1928, no. 54
Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1930, no. 72
La Dignité des humbles: Jean-François Millet et le naturalisme en Europe, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, 2003, no. 63
Le néo-impressionnisme de Seurat à Paul Klee, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2005
Neoimpresionismo: La eclosión de la modernidad, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, 2007, no. 10
Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond. Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Art Center, Tokyo; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 2009/10, no. 28
Impressionismo: Paris e a modernidade. Obras-primas Musée d’Orsay, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2012/13
Impresionistas y postimpresionistas: El nacimiento del arte moderno. Obras maestras del Musée d'Orsay, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, 2013, no. 18
Musée d'Orsay: Capolavori, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, February 22–June 22, 2014
Pissarro à Eragny: La Nature retrouvée, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2017, no. 13
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
April 6, 1888, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, purchased
from the artist
June 10, 1927, Gaston Lévy, Paris, acquired from the above
ca. 1930, Mrs. E. de Wolf, New York
ca. October 1940, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, confiscation,
inv.-no. MA-B 1085
June 1943, Jeu de Paume, transferred from the above, safekeeping
n.d., Schloss Kogl, St. Georgen, Attergau, safekeeping, inv.-no. 687/5
March 21, 1946, Central Collecting Point, Munich, safekeeping, inv.-no.
22355/4
September 25, 1947, French State, returned by the above
1949, Natasha von Fliegers (née Josefowitz), Paris and New York, transferred
by the above
Serge Fliegers, inherited from the above
1988, Direction Générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects (French customs
administration), confiscated from
the above
2000, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, transferred by the above, inv.-no. RF 2000-83
2018, heirs of Gaston Lévy, restituted by the French government
February 4, 2020, Sotheby’s, London, lot 11, consigned by the above
Félix Fénéon, “Calendrier de mars, II: Aux vitrines des marchands de tableaux,” in La Revue indépendante (April 1888), p. 193/94
Octave Maus, “Le Salon des XX à Bruxelles. VIe exposition annuelle,” in La Cravache (February 16, 1889), p. 1
Ernest-Marie d’Hervilly, in Le Rappel (March 10, 1890), p. 2
Henry Van de Velde, “Du Paysan en peinture,” in L’Art Moderne (February 22, 1891), p. 61
François Thiébault-Sisson, “La Vie artistique: Camille Pissarro et son œuvre,” in Le Temps (January 30, 1921), p. 3
Gustave Kahn, “Art”, in Mercure de France (March 1, 1921), p. 520
Le Figaro Artistique (December 1928)
Paul Fiérens, “Causerie artistique: Pissarro,” in Le Journal des débats (February 25, 1930), p. 3
Pierre Berthelot, “Camille Pissarro: Exposition du centenaire 1830–1930, pavillon de l’Orangerie,” March 20, 1930), ill. p. 12
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art – son œuvre, Paris 1939, no. 722, p. 182, plate 151
Dénes Pataky, Pissarro, Budapest 1972, ill. plate 39
Charles Kunstler, Camille Pissarro, Milan 1974, ill. p. 78
John Rewald, C. Pissarro, Paris 1974, ill. p. 59
John Rewald, Studies in Post-Impressionism, London 1986, p. 26, 108
Janine Bailly-Herzberg (ed.), Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. 2 (1886–1890), Paris 1986, p. 172 (no. 427), 178 (no. 431), 179 (no. 432), 242 (no. 495), 261 (no. 512, 513), 262 (no. 514)
Richard R. Brettell, “Pissarro in Louveciennes: An Inscription and Three Paintings,” in Apollo (November 1992), p. 316
Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, London 1993, p. 183, 217, 221, ill. p. 171, fig. 186
Martha Ward, Pissarro: Neo-Impressionism and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde, Chicago 1996, p. 307
Richard R. Brettell and Martha Ward, “Pissarro. Neo-Impressionism and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde,” in The Art Bulletin (March 1999), p. 171
Anne Distel, “Nouvelles acquisitions: Camille Pissarro, Jeune Paysanne faisant du feu, gelée blanche,” in La Revue du musée d’Orsay (Spring 2001), p. 50, ill. p. 51
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 3, Milan 2005, no. 857, p. 561, ill. p. 561
Pissarro’s People, exh. cat. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown 2011, ill. p. 216, fig. 163
Camille Pissarro: Le premier des impressionnistes, exh. cat. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 2017, ill. p. 123, fig. 19
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