Young Peasant Having Her Coffee

Prints and Drawings

1879/80

Camille Pissarro
French, 1830-1903

Beloved for his Impressionist landscapes, around 1880 Pissarro turned his attention to the human figure, producing Young Peasant Having Her Coffee, a monumental canvas of a humble subject, among other works. Hands and feet have gained notoriety for being the most difficult body parts to draw, and this sheet reveals the artist’s struggle to depict his subject’s hands. The painting was shown with a group of other new figure pictures at the seventh Impressionist exhibition in 1882. Exceedingly rare, this is the largest of the artist’s preparatory drawings.

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Artist: Camille Pissarro
Title: Young Peasant Having Her Coffee
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1879–1880
Medium: Black chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right, in graphite: "61a"
Dimensions: 61.4 × 47.9 cm (24 3/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2010.540
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Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1993), pp. 156 and 158, fig. 159.
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings II (New York, 2005), p. 442, under no. 662 (ill.).
“Cat. 9: Young Peasant Having Her Coffee,” in Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago, eds. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), https://publications.artic.edu/pissarro/reader/paintingsandpaper/section/8L.

Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, “Pissarro’s People”, June 5 - October 2, 2011, traveled to San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,Legion of Honor, October 22, 2011 - January 22, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions,” August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.

Estate of the artist, from 1903 [stamped (Lugt supplement 613a) recto, lower right, in reddish-brown ink]. Maus, Geneva [according to Wildenstein]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.

Cat. 9 Young Peasant Having Her Coffee, 1879/80

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