Woman and Child at the Well
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)1882
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About this work
By the 1880s, Camille Pissarro, like most of his Impressionist colleagues, sought an alternative to the style he had employed over the previous decade, deciding to focus on figures rather than landscapes. Of the 36 paintings he showed at the seventh Impressionist exhibition, in the spring of 1882, 27 were figural. Woman and Child at the Well is one of a series of works depicting peasant girls taking a break from their chores, their poses and gestures suggesting narratives that remain ambiguous. As the model for the boy in this composition, Pissarro used his fourth son, Ludovic-Rodolphe, who was four years old at the time.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 81.5 × 66.4 cm (32 1/8 × 26 1/8 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 17 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1903); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, August 5, 1882.
- Durand-Ruel, New York, by August 5, 1882; sold to William Loring Andrews, New York, February 27, 1888; sold back to Durand-Ruel, New York, May 21, 1891; sold to Cyrus J. Lawrence, New York, December 19, 1891; sold back to Durand-Ruel, New York, January 2, 1892; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, March 2, 1892, for $750; by descent to the Potter family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibitions
- Tours, Société des Amis des Arts de la Touraine,,, 1882, no cat. found.
- Paris, 9, boulevard de la Madeleine, Oeuvres de C. Pissarro, May 1–25, 1883, as Le Puits.
- Possibly New York, American Art Galleries, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, Apr. 10–28, 1886; New York, National Academy of Design, May 25–June 30, 1886, as Woman and Child.
- New York, National Academy of Design, Celebrated Paintings by Great French Masters, May 25–June 30, 1887, as Women at a Well.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934.
- New York, Wildenstein, Camille Pissarro, His Place in Art, Oct. 24–Nov. 24, 1945.
- Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Camille Pissarro, Jan. 8–30, 1946.
- University of Chicago, Lexington Hall, Mar. 4–15, 1957, no cat. Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, French and American Impressionism, Oct. 2–Nov. 26, 1967.
- Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980.
- Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Retrospective Camille Pissarro, Mar. 9¬–Apr. 9, 1984; Fukuoka Art Museum, Apr. 25–May 20, 1984; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, May 26–July 1, 1984.
- Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape, and Rural Labour, March 8–Apil.
- 22, 1990; Glasgow, Burrell Collection, May 4–June 17, 1990.
- Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Weisbord Exhibition Pavilion, Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, October 11, 1994–February 9, 1995; New York, Jewish Museum, February 26–July 16, 1995 (Jerusalem only).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of ‘La Grande Jatte,’ June 16-September 19, 2004.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Pissarro’s People, June 12–Oct. 2, 2011, no cat. no.; San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Oct. 22, 2011–Jan. 22, 2012.
