Camille Pissarro
Peasant House at Éragny1884

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Impressionist oil painting of a French farmhouse garden with white walls, terracotta rooftops, lush green trees, and a small figure among the foliage, signed and dated 1884

Verso of a framed canvas showing white-painted backing with a vertical wooden crossbar at center, museum and gallery labels at upper left and right, and metal corner brackets.

Artist or Maker: Camille Pissarro
Title: Peasant House at Éragny
Date Made: 1884
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (46 × 55 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.118
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
Provenance: 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.
Selected Bibliography: 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.

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