Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)1879
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About this work
Along with Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro pursued the theme of snow throughout his career, producing nearly 100 “snow” paintings. In 1879 France experienced an extraordinarily severe winter, which Pissarro explored in this and other works painted at his home in Pontoise, 30 miles west of Paris, along the Seine River. In Rabbit Warren, snow covers the ground, houses, and vegetation in a frothy coat that resulted from the artist’s vigorous brushwork. Throughout, small spots of color in the chimneys, greenish shrubs, and clothing of the man at right punctuate what is otherwise a predominately yellowish white and uninhabited fragment of nature.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 59.2 × 72.3 cm (23 5/16 × 28 7/16 in.)
Museum record · 4 owners · 5 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1903); given to Julie Pissarro (artist’s wife), Paris, by 1892; by descent to her son, Ludovic-Rodolphe (Rodo) Pissarro, Paris, 1904; sold jointly to Durand-Ruel, Paris, and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aug. 7, 1918; share sold by Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Mar. 12, 1920.
- Georges Petit Paris, by Mar. 31, 1924; sold to Prat, Mar. 31, 1924.
- Sam Salz, New York, around 1958.
- Martin and Sidney Zimet, New York, by Jan. 11, 1963; half share sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, Jan. 11, 1963; sold to Marshall Field, Chicago, by June 1964; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, beginning in June 1964.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, Jan. 23–Feb. 20, 1892, as La Garenne, à Pontoise; effet de neige, Appartenant à Mme P. Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22–Aug. 25, 1974, no, Hayward Gallery, Pissarro: Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Oct. 30, 1980–Jan. 11, 1981; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jan. 30–Apr. 27, 1981; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19–Aug. 9, 1981.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
- Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
- London, Hayward Gallery, Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals, May 18–August 28, 1995; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 4, 1995–January 14, 1996.
- Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige, Sept. 19, 1998–Jan. 3, 1999; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco at the Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, Jan. 30–May 2, 1999; Brooklyn Museum of Art, May 27–Aug. 29, 1999.
