Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)1895
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Camille Pissarro referred to this painting in a letter of November 1894, when he wrote to his son Lucien that he wanted to send him a picture of “a little peasant girl dipping her feet in the water.” At the time, he considered the work almost finished but still lacking “that little something,” exclaiming optimistically, “I think I will get it, I feel it!” His continued ruminations on the composition may explain its heavily encrusted surface. After finishing it, he painted a variation featuring a nude (a rarity for the artist) in the same pose and setting (1895; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 73 × 92 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 20 exhibitions
Provenance
- Albert Pontremoli, Paris, by April, 1904; sold Albert Pontremoli Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11, 1924, lot 136 to Dr. Janos Plesch, Berlin, for 37,700 francs.
- Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, by 1939; sold to Mrs. John Astor, New York.
- E and A. Silberman Gallery, New York, by 1951; sold to Nathan Cummings, Chicago, January 25, 1952; transferred to Consolidated Foods Nathan Cummings Collection (Sara Lee Corporation), 1980; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.
Exhibitions
- Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Feb.–Mar. 2, 1895.
- Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, Mar. 21–Apr. 15, 1895.
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, Apr. 7–30, 1904.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Great French Paintings: An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, Jan. 20–Feb. 20, 1955.
- New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings: For the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., Oct. 12–Nov. 1, 1955.
- Palm Beach, Fla., The Society of the Four Arts, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903, Jan. 9–31, 1960.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Apr. 15–May 7, 1961, no cat. no. New York, Wildenstein, Modern French Painting, Apr. 11–25, 1962; Waltham, Mass., Rose Art Museum, May 10–June 13, 1962.
- Paris, Institute of Fine Arts, 1962.
- Chicago, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Nov. 16–21, 1963.
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings from the Cummings Collection, Jan. 14–Mar. 7, 1965, no cat. no. New London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, Jan. 19–Feb. 18, 1968, no cat. no..
- New York, Christie’s, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Their Circle, Nov. 14–30, 1968.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings from New York Collections: Nathan Cummings Collection, July 1–Sept. 7, 1971.
- Winston-Salem, N.C., Reynolda House Museum of American Art, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation, Sept. 9–Dec. 28, 1990, no cat.; Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Jan. 20–Mar. 17, 1991.
- Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Weisbord Exhibition Pavilion, Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, Oct. 11, 1994–Feb. 9, 1995; New York, Jewish Museum, Feb. 26–July 16, 1995.
- Laren, Netherlands, Singer Laren, An Impressionist Legacy, Meesters van de Moderne Kunst: Collectie Sara Lee Corporation: Meesters van de moderne kunst, Oct. 18, 1997–Feb. 15, 1998, no cat. Singapore Museum of Art, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, Apr. 1–May 30, 1999; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, June 11–Aug. 22, 1999; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Sept. 10–Nov. 7, 1999; Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, Nov. 19, 1999–Jan. 23, 2000; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 13–May 28, 2000.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy, Oct. 22, 2013–Jan. 5, 2014; Fukuoka City Museum, Jan. 15–Mar. 2, 2014; Museum of Kyoto, Mar. 11–May 11, 2014.
- Paris, France, Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, Pissarro in Eragny.
- Nature regained (Pissarro à Éragny, l'anarchie et la nature), March 16-July 9, 2017.
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Camile Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism, Se, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022.
