Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris; [sold at Galerie Georges Petit 1-2 Feb 1897, sale, Coll. De H. V(ever), no. 91]; [to Durand-Rue]; [sold 13 February 1899  to Bernheim-Jeune and Georges Petit, Paris]; to M.G. Bing; [ sold at auction, Coll. M.G. Bing, Paris, Hotel Drôuot, 9 June 1927, lot 57 (as Eragny)]; toJerome Stoneborough (1873-1938); [sold at auction “Collected in Paris by the late Jerome Stoneborough, New York,” Parke- Bernet, 17 Oct 1940, lot 65]; [joint purchase by Durand-Ruel, New York and Sam Salz New York]; [sold at auction, Durand-Ruel and Sam Salz, Parke-Bernet, New York, 3 Dec 1942, lot 14]; to Francis (1906-1994) and Beatrice (1899-1963) Stein Steegmuller; by inheritance to Francis' second wife and widow Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller (1931-2016); [sold March 1996 to Acquavella Galleries, New York]; sold March 1996 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.

Camille Pissarro achieved his greatest success by capturing the ethereal effects of the outdoors, as in The Path to Les Pouilleux, Pontoise, Peasant House at Éragny (to the left), and Snowy Landscape at South Norwood (to the right). With skillful brushstrokes, which are increasingly layered in the two later paintings, Pissarro created glittering surfaces that reflect the changing qualities of the skies, foliage, and fields.

Although ethnically and politically an outsider (Pissarro, an atheist and self-described anarchist, was born to a Jewish family on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, formerly a Danish colony), he was never theless a central figure in the Impressionist narrative.

Wall label, 2021.

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• Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.