The artist (1830-1903). M. Molonet, Paris (artist's tailor); [sold on 10 January 1889 to Paul Durand-Ruel]; Private Collection, France; [sold at auction “Property of a French private collector,” Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1993, lot 29]; [to Acquavella Galleries, New York]; sold in 1994 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.

• Pissarro, Joachim, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Translated by Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor. Milan: Skira; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2005.
• 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.