Object Information

Camille Pissarro
French, 1830-1903

Woman Sewing, 1895

Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 21 3/8 in. (65.4 x 54.4 cm)
Inscribed lower left: C. Pissarro 1895
Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block, 1959.636

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Stafford Gallery, Camille Pissarro, 1911, cat. 11.

Zurich, Moderne Galerie, 1913, cat. 7.

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art / Fukuoka, Fukuoka Museum of Art / Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Retrospective Camille Pissarro, March 9 - April 9, 1984 / April 25 - May 20, 1984, May 26 - July 1, 1984, cat. 43.

Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17,1985; Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986, pp.104, 105, 154, cat. 49 (ill.).

Sidney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Camille Pissarro, November 19, 2005–February 19, 2006; traveled to Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, p. 207, 208 (ill.), cat. 98.

Publication History

Venturi and Paul Rosenberg, Camille Pissarro : Son Art - Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1939), no. 934, as Jeune Fille Raccommodant Des Bas.

John Rewald, Pissarro, Collection des Maitres (Paris, [1939?]), no. 48 (ill).

Christopher Lloyd, Pissarro (New York, 1979), p. 15, no. 34 (ill.).

Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1981), p. 98 (ill.).

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1993), no. 179 (ill.).

Ownership History

The artist's son, Ludovico Rodo Pissarro (died 1952), Paris. Sam Salz, Inc. New York [probably acquired directly from L. R. Pissarro, see L. R. Pissarro's note on the back of painting's reproduction: "J'ai gardé ce tableau pour Mr. Salz qui vieut de ma collection privée, 25 Sept 1950," in curatorial file]. Mrs. Leigh B. Block by 1959; given to the Art Institute, 1959.