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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Tours, Société des Amis des Arts de la Touraine [paintings lent by Durand-Ruel], September-October, 1882 [no cat. acc. to Pissarro 2005].

Paris, 9 Boulevard de la Madeleine, Oeuvres de C. Pissarro, May 1-25, 1883, cat. 10, as Le Puits.

Possibly New York, American Art Galleries, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris [lent by Durand-Ruel], April 10-May, 1886, cat. 145, as Woman and Child; traveled to New York, National Academy of Design, May 25-June, 1886.

New York, National Academy of Design, Celebrated Paintings by Great French Masters [lent by Durand-Ruel], May 25-June 30, 1887, cat. 171.

Chicago, The Art Institute, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, p. 43 cat. 261 as Women at the Well, 1882.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Camille Pissarro, His Place in Art, For the Benefit of the Goddard Neighborhood Center, October 24-November 24, 1945, p. 30, 36 cat. 20 (ill.) as Femme et Enfant au Puits, 1881.

Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Camille Pissarro, January 8-30, 1946, cat. 7.

Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, French and American Impressionism, October 2-November 26, 1967, cat. 11.

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors Impressionistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, pp. 42, 68 cat. 24 (ill.) as Femme et Enfant Pres d’un Puits, 1882.

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Retrospective:Camille Pissarro, March 9-April 9, 1984, cover and pp. 133-134 cat. 36 (ill.) as Femme et enfant au puits, 1882; traveled to Fukuoka, Art Museum, April 25-May 20, 1984; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, May 26-July 1, 1984.

Leningrad, The Sate Hermitage Museum, From Delacroix to Matisse, 1988, cat. 14 (ill.); traveled to Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labour, March 8-April 22, 1990, pp. 58, 62-63 cat. 65 (ill.) as Young Woman and Child at the Well, 1882; traveled to Glasgow, The Burrell Collection, May 4-June 17, 1990.

Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, October 11, 1994-January 9, 1995, pp. 140, 149 cat. 66 (ill.) as Woman and Child at the Well, 1882; traveled to New York, The Jewish Museum, February 26-July 16, 1995.

Chicago, The Art Institute, Seurat and the Making of la Grande Jatte, June 16-September 19, 2004, pp. 103, 105 cat. 103 (ill.) as Woman and Child at the Well, 1882.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 43 (ill.).

Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Pissarro's People, June 6, 2011-October 2, 2011, fig. 137 (ill.).; traveled to San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, Legion of Honor, October 22, 2011-January 22, 2012.

Publication History

Paul Labarrière, “Exposition Pissarro, 9 boulevard de la Madeleine,” Le Journal des Artistes (June 1, 1883), p. 3.

Henry Morel, “Camille Pissarro,” Le Réveil (June 24, 1883), p. 1.

Daniel Catton Rich, “Französische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon 11 (January-June, 1933), pp. 78, 79 (ill.) as Frau am Brunnen/Femme au Puits.

George Slocombe, “Papa Pissarro,” Coronet 4, 1 (May, 1938), p. 21 (ill.) as Woman at the Well, 1882.

Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, Son Art—Son Oeuvre vol. 2 (Paris, 1939), p. 163 pl. 119 cat. 574 as Femme et Enfant au Puits, 1882.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 359 as Woman and Child at the Well, 1882.

John Rewald (1963), pp. 130, 131 (ill.).

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

Dénes Pataky, Pissarro (Budapest, 1972), p. 18 pl. 32.

John Rewald, C. Pissarro (Paris, 1974), cat. 33 (ill.).

Yoshikazu Iwasaki, Camille Pissarro (Tokyo, 1978), pl. 22.

John Rewald, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1989), p. 104-105 cat. 574 (ill.) as Woman and Child at a Well, 1882.

MEC videodisc project (The Museum of Modern Art, 1989)

Meir Ronnen, “Pissarro: Eye, Hand and Mind,” The Jerusalem Post Magazine (year?), p. 19 as Woman and Child at the Well, 1882.

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

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1993), p. 172 pl. 187.

Nehama Guralnik and Ruth Feldman, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Moshe and Sara Mayer Collection, exh. cat. (Tel Aviv, 1999), p. 32 fig. 6 as Woman and Child at the Well, 1882.

James N. Wood, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 69 (ill.) as Woman and Child at the Well, 1882.

Joachim Pissarro et al., Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. 1, trans. Mark Hutchinson, Michael Taylor (Skira and Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), pp. 430 (ill.), 362-3, 378, 384, 398, 405, 408, 411, 413, 417, 425, cat. 688, as Femme et enfant au puits.

Joachim Pissarro et al., Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. 2, trans. Mark Hutchinson, Michael Taylor (Skira and Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), p. 459 (ill.), cat. 688, as Femme et enfant au puits.

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 43, p. 99 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought by Durand-Ruel from the artist on August 5, 1882 [this and the following information according to Pissarro and Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005]; sold to William L. Andrews on February 27, 1888; bought back by Durand-Ruel, New York on May 21 1891; sold to Cyrus J. Lawrence on December 19, 1891; bought back by Durand-Ruel, New York on January 2, 1892; sold as Femme au puits for $750,00 to Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, on March 2, 1892 [according to information provided by Durand-Ruel Archives]; by descent in the Palmer family; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.