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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Salons du Panorama de Reichschoffen, 251, rue Saint-Honoré, 7e Exposition des Artistes Indépendants, March-April 1882, cat. 111, as Jeune paysanne prenant son café.

London, Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of “La Société des Impressionistes,” April 20-July, 1883, cat. 5.

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro, January 23-February 20, 1892, cat. 16, as Le Café au lait, 1881.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections, June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 44 cat. 301 as Cafe-au-Lait, 1881.

Los Angeles, County Museum, The Development of Impressionism, January 12-February 28, 1940, n.p. cat. 56 (ill.) as The Cup of Coffee, 1881; traveled to San Diego, Art Society, March 1940.

Omaha, Josyln Art Museum, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, April 10-June 1, 1969, p. 41, 73 cat. 39 (ill.) as Café au Lait, 1881.

Mobile, Art Gallery, The Impressionists: Painting in France in the Late Nineteenth Century, November 5-November 30, 1969, n.p. (ill.) as Cafe au Lait, 1880.

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Boccioni e il suo tempo, December 10, 1973-February 24, 1974, p. 6 cat. 1 (ill.) as Giovane contadina che fa colazione, 1881.

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882, November 2, 1979-January 6, 1980, p. 158, 159 cat. 41 (ill.) as Jeune paysanne prenant son café au lait, 1881.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, January 17-April 6, 1986, p. 388, 387, 394, 409 cat. 127 (ill.) as Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Coffee/Jeune Paysanne Prenant son Café, 1881; traveled to San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, April 19-July 6, 1986.

Leningrad, The State Hermitage Museum, From Delacroix to Matisse, March 15-May 10, 1988, p. 25 cat. 13 (ill.); traveled to Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, June 10-July 30, 1988.

Chicago, The Art Institute, Chicago’s Dream: A World’s Treasure, November 1-January 1994, no cat.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 44 (ill.).

Publication History

Arthur Hustin, “L’Exposition des Peintres Indépendants,” L’Estafette (March 3, 1882) [reprinted in New Painting Impressionism]

Armand Salanches, “L’Exposition des Artistes Indépendants,” Le Journal des Arts (March 3, 1882), p. 1. [reprinted in New Painting Impressionism]

Draner and Renard, “Une Visite aux Impressionnistes,”Le Charivari (March 9, 1882), p. 3 (ill.). [reprinted in New Painting Impressionism]

Arthur Hustin, “L’Exposition des Impressionistes,” Le Moniteur des Arts (March 10, 1882), p. 1.

Émile Hennequin, “Beaux-Arts: Les Expositions des Arts Libéraux et des Artistes Indépendants,” Le Revue Littéraire et Artistique (March 11, 1882), p. 155.

Armand Silvestre, “Le Monde des Arts: Septième Exposition des Artistes Indépendants,” La Vie Moderne (March 11, 1882), p. 151.

Paul de Charry, “Beaux-Arts,” Le Pays (March 14, 1882), p. 3.

L’Art Moderne (March 19, 1882), p. 93.

Charles Saunier, “L’Art Nouveau I, Camille Pissarro,” Le Revue Indépendante (April, 1892, p. 35.

Léo Koenig and Leib Yaffee, Camille Pissarro (Paris, 1927), pl. IX.

Daniel Catton Rich, “Französische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon 11 (January-June, 1933), p. 78 as Café au Lait, 1881.

George Slocombe, “Papa Pissarro,” Coronet 4, 1 (May, 1938) p. 25 (ill.) as Café-au-Lait, 1881.

Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, Son Art—Son Oeuvre vol. 1 (Paris, 1939), p. 158, pl. 114 cat. 549 (ill.) as Le Petit Déjeuner, Jeune Paysanne Prenant son Café au Lait, 1881.

A Brief Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), p. 34.

Kunst und Künstler (1949), p. 44 fig. 2.

Gotthard Jedlicka, Pissarro (Bern, 1950), pl. 21.

Thadée Natanson, Pissarro, ‘Artistes de Jadis et d’Aujourd’hui’ series (1950), pl. 21.

John Rewald, Pissarro (Paris, 1939?), n.p. cat. 42 (ill.) as Le Petit Déjeuner, 1881.

John Rewald (1963), p. 126, 127 (ill.).

John Rewald, Pissarro (Paris, 1970), no. 31.

John Rewald, C. Pissarro (Paris, 1974), no. 31.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 35 as Le Café au Lait.

The Art institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 358 as The Cafe au Lait, 1881.

Velia Huda, Camille Pissarro [‘The Masters’ series] (Milan, 1963), p. 8 pl. XII.

Milton S. Fox, Camille Pissarro (New York,1966).

Mikhail Guerman, Pissarro [‘Masters of World Painting’ series] (St. Petersburg,1973), p. 14.

Christopher Lloyd, Pissarro (New York, 1979), p. 8 pl. 26 (ill.) as Breakfast, Young Female Peasant Taking her Coffee, 1881.

Ralph E. Shikes and Paul Harper, Pissarro: His Life and Work, (New York, 1980), p. 177 (ill.) as The Café au Lait, 1881.

Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1981), p. 92, 94, 96 (ill.) as Young Peasant Woman taking her Coffee, 1881.

Paul Adam, “Soi et les “Peintures Impressionistes:” la genèse d’un discours moderniste,” Revue de l’Art 82 (1988), p. 44, 46 fig. 9 as Café au Lait, 1881.

John Rewald, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1989), p. 100, 101 cat. 549 (ill.) as Young Peasant Woman Taking her Morning Coffee, 1881.

Bernard Denvir, Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings (London, 1991), p. 259 cat. 254 (ill.) as Peasant girl drinking her coffee, 1881.

Martha Kapos, The Impressionists: A Retrospective (New York, 1991), p. 259 pl. 81 as Peasant Girl Drinking her Coffee, 1881.

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1993), p. 156, 158, 215 fig. 160, as Café au Lait.

WTJX Channel 12, The Life of Camille Pissarro (Public Television System, 1993).

Martha Ward, Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde (Chicago, 1994), p. 39, 40 fig. 1.5 (ill.) as Café-au-lait, 1881.

Paul Smith, Impressionism: Beneath the Surface (New York, 1995), p. 124, 125 fig. 81 (ill.) as Young Peasant Girl Drinking Coffee, 1881.

Paul Smith, Seurat and the Avant-Garde (New Haven, 1997), p. 93, 94 fig. 114 (ill.) as Jeune paysanne prenant son café (Café au lait), 1881.

Marie–José Pellé, Vert Pissarro: Impressions de Normandie et d’Ailleurs (2000), p. 86.

James N. Wood, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 63 (ill.) as Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Café au Lait, 1881.

Joachim Pissarro et al, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. 1, trans. Mark Hutchinson, Michael Taylor (Skira and Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), pp. 29 (ill.), 362-3, 378, 382-3, 399, 401, 405, 409, 411, 417, cat. 662, as Le Petit Déjeuner, jeune paysanne prenant son café au lait.

Joachim Pissarro et al., Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. 2, trans. Mark Hutchinson, Michael Taylor (Skira and Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), p. 442 (ill.), cat. 662, as Le Petit Déjeuner, jeune paysanne prenant son café au lait.

Christie’s Auction House, Impressionist and Modern Art: Evening Sale (June 21, 2005), p. 42 (ill.) as Le petit déjeuner, jeune paysanne prenant son café au lait, 1881.

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 44, pp. 100-01 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought by Durand-Ruel from the artist on December 19, 1881 [this and the following information cited after Pissarro/Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005]; sold to Georges Petit, Paris, on August 9, 1883; sold to Durand-Ruel on April 17, 1891; sold as Café au lait for 3,000 francs to Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, on April 29, 1892 [according to information provided by Durand-Ruel Archives]; by descent in the Palmer family; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.