About the Artwork
The Path
1889
Camille Pissarro
1830-1903
French
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 28 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (72.4 × 59.7 cm) Framed: 36 1/4 inches × 31 1/4 inches × 4 inches (92.1 × 79.4 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
City of Detroit Purchase
21.34
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: C. Pissarro 1889
Provenance
Léon Payen (France);June 29-30, 1916, sold by (Georges Petit, Paris, France) lot 95;
sold by (J. Allard & Co., Paris, France) stock #6699;
1920-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Poland, R. "French Impressionist Paintings Acquired." Bulletin of the DIA 2, no. 8 (1921): pp. 70-73; p. 72.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 170 (ill.).
Pissarro, L.R. and L. Venturi. Camille Pissarro. Paris, 1939, vol. 1, p. 184, no. 731 [as Le Sentier, collection Léon Payen]; vol. 2, (pl. 153).
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 103, no. 170.
Pissarro and His Place in Art. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. New York, 1945, cat. 28.
Paintings by Camille Pissarro. Exh. cat., the Arts Club of Chicago. Chicago, 1946, cat. 8.
Grigaut, P.L. The Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1954, p. 32, cat. 52.
Lloyd, Chr. Camille Pissarro. Geneva and New York, 1981, p. 114; p. 146 (ill.).
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 88, 219, cat. 56 (ill.).
Keyes, G.S. "Late Nineteenth-Century French Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 77, no. 1/2, p. 7 (fig. 2).
Pissarro, J. and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Paris, vol. 3. 2005, p. 572, cat. 871 (ill.). [as Le Sentier, femmes causant.]
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Camille Pissarro, The Path, 1889, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.34.
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