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Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise

Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise

1879
(French, 1830–1903)
Framed: 166 x 204 x 16.5 cm (65 3/8 x 80 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 125 x 163 cm (49 3/16 x 64 3/16 in.)

Did You Know?

A goat seen from the back standing next to the figure in blue laying in the grass invites the viewer to step inside this serene and beautiful setting.

Description

Born to a French-Jewish family on St. Thomas island in the Caribbean, Pissarro painted this monumental landscape when he was desperately poor and struggling to sell his paintings. It depicts a man slumbering in the sun-dappled backwoods of the Hermitage, a rural village near Pontoise, where the artist had been living since 1872. Restricting his palette to pure hues, Pissarro applied brushstrokes in systematic diagonal patterns, producing an effect that he likened to knitting. This canvas was included in the fourth Impressionist exhibition of 1879.
  • 1903-1913
    Family of the artist, sold to Bernheim-Jeune
    1913-1935
    (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to L’Art Moderne)
    1935
    (L'Art Moderne, Lucerne)
    1935
    (L'Art Moderne sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 20, 1935 (no. 59), sold to André Schoeller)
    1935-
    (André Schoeller [1898-1991], Paris)
    ?
    (Charles Comiot, Paris
    Until 1951
    (César de Hauke and Hector Brame, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1951-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Pissarro, Joachim, Joachim Pissarro, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: critical catalogue of paintings. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005.
    César de Hauke, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 17, 1951, in CMA curatorial file.
    Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, July 28, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
    Pissarro, Joachim, Joachim Pissarro, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: critical catalogue of paintings. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005.
    César de Hauke, letter to Henry S. Francis, Nov. 17, 1951, in CMA curatorial file.
    Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, July 28, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
    Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, Oct. 13, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
    Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins par Bonnard, Boudin, Céria, Cézanne, Chagall, Corot, Coubine, Courbet, Cross, Degas, Derain, R. Dufy, Dufresne, Eberl, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Guillaumin, Laglenne, Marquet, Modigliani, Monet, Monticelli, Pascin, Picasso, Pissarro, Quizet, Renoir, Rouault, Signac, Souverbie, Utrillo, Vallotton, Vlaminck. 1935.
    Pissarro, Joachim, Joachim Pissarro, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: critical catalogue of paintings. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005.
    Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, July 28, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
    Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins par Bonnard, Boudin, Céria, Cézanne... June 20, 1935.
    Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins par Bonnard, Boudin, Céria, Cézanne... June 20, 1935.
    Pissarro, Joachim, Joachim Pissarro, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: critical catalogue of paintings. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications, 200
    Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro; son art--son œuvre. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939.
    Sylvie Brame, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 30, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
    Sylvie Brame, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 29, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
    D'Hervilly, Ernest. "Exposition des Impressionistes." Le Rappel (April 11, 1879): 2. Mentioned: p. 2
    Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro; Son Art--Son Oeuvre. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939. Mentioned: vol. 1, no. 489; reproduced: vol. 2, no. 489, pl. 99
    Francis, Henry S. "Le Fond de l'Hermitage by Camille Pissarro." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 4 (April 1952): 64-66. Reproduced: p. 62
    Art et Style 34 (1955): 22. Reproduced: p. 22
    Musée de l'Orangerie. De David à Toulouse-Lautrec; chefs-d'œuvres des collections américaines. Paris: [Presses artistiques], 1955. Referenced: cat. no. 45, Reproduced: pl. 44
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Owned Paintings Will Go to France,” April 20, 1955, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 505 archive.org
    Milliken,William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. Reproduced: p. 54
    Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: The Museum, 1958. Reproduced: no. 69
    Henning, E. B. “Cleveland Museum of Art: From Turner to Guston.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 481–488. Reproduced: p. 484
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 174 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 174 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 215 archive.org
    Brettell, Richard R. and Christopher Lloyd. A Catalogue of the Drawings by Camille Pissarro in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Mentioned: p. 140-141, nos. 132, 133
    Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903 : Hayward Gallery, London, 30 October 1980-11 January 1981, Grand Palais, Paris, 30 January-27 April 1981, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 19 May-9 August 1981. London, United Kingdom: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980. Reproduced: p. 43
    Lucie-Smith, Edward. "Impressions of Pissarro." Illustrated London News 268 (December 1980): 75. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 75
    Lloyd, Christopher. Camille Pissarro. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 80-81
    Bernard, Bruce. The Impressionist Revolution. London: Orbis, 1986. Reproduced: p. 232; mentioned: p. 263
    Brettell, Richard R. Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 192-193, pl. 166
    Zimmermann, Michael F. Seurat and the Art Theory of His Time. Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1991. Reproduced: p. 104, fig. 170
    Kapos, Martha. The Impressionists, a Retrospective. [Southport, Conn.]: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1991. Reproduced: pl. 57
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 152-153
    Pissarro, Joachim. Camille Pissarro. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993. Mentioned: p. 121; reproduced: p. 132, fig. 138
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 183
    Benedetti, Maria Teresa. L'Impressionismo: Dentro l'Immagine. Milano: A. Mondadori, 1993. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 178-181
    Reid, Martin. Pissarro. London, England: Studio Editions, 1993. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 96-97
    Ewers-Schultz, Martina. Die Französischen Grundlagen des "Rheinischen Expressionismus" 1905 bis 1914: Stellenwert und Bedeutung der französischen Kunst in Deutschland und ihre Rezeption in den Werken der Bonner Ausstellungsgemeinschaft von 1913. Münster: Lit, 1996. Reproduced: p. 369, pl. 5
    Berson, Ruth. The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886: Documentation. [San Francisco, CA]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996. Mentioned: Vol. 1, p. 206-207, 224; Vol. 2, p. 117; Reproduced: Vol. 2, p. 137
    Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Pissarro: Il Periodo Impressionista." Art e Dossier 132 (March 1998): 16-33 Reproduced: p. 28; mentioned: p, 30
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mone, Runowāru to inshōha no fūkei: kaikan kinen dai ikkai kikakuten = Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape. [Japan]: Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan, 1999. Reproduced: p. 146, fig. 26
    D Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 494-496, no. 172
    Shackelford, George T. M. Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2000. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 146, fig. 37
    Eisenman, Stephen. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Mentioned: p. 297; reproduced: p. 292, fig. 13.11
    Christie. Impressionist and Modern Art (Evening Sale). London: Christie's, 2002. Reproduced: p. 29, fig.4
    Mancoff, Debra N. Impressionism: Reflections of Beauty. Lincolnwood, Ill: Publications International, Ltd, 2003. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 72
    Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro, 1865-1885. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Reproduced: p. 212, no. 105
    Legrand, Francois. "Conversation en Peinture." Connaissance des Arts Hors-Serie 275 (2006): 24-35. Reproduced: p. 29
    Eisenman, Stephen. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 344, fig. 15.13
    Fonsmark, Anne-Birgitte. Pissarro: et møde på Skt. Thomas. København: Ordrupgaard, 2017. Reproduced: p. 168, fig. 161
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. Reproduced: p. 39 archive.org
  • Pissarro. A Meeting on St. Thomas. Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Copenhagen, Denmark (organizer) (March 9-July 2, 2017).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).
    Cézanne and Pissarro: Making Modernism. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (June 24-September 12, 2005); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (October 20, 2005-January 16, 2006); Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (February 27-May 28, 2006).
    Camille Pissarro and Impressionism. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, D-70184 Stuttgart, Germany (organizer) (December 11, 1999-May 1, 2000).
    The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (January 16-April 6, 1986); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (April 19-July 6, 1986).
    Camille Pissarro: The Unexplored Impressionist. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (October 30, 1980-January 11, 1981); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (January 30-April 27, 1981); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (May 19-August 9, 1981).
    La 4e exposition de peinture. 28 Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris, France (1879).
    In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
    De David a Toulouse-Lautrec : chefs-d’oeuvres des collections americaines. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (April 20-July 5, 1955).
    Les premières époques de Camille Pissarro, de 1858 à 1884. Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris, France (1936),
    Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (1930).
    Tableaux par Camille Pissarro. Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (1928).
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