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Two Plowmen in a Field by Camille Pissarro
- Camille Pissarro is known as the "Father of Impressionism" for his revolutionary compositions
- This intimate drawing of two workers comes from an important period in the master’s career
- Rendered with confident lines, the work captures two figures tending to the field
- The work preserves the immediacy of a scene drawn directly from life
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Description
Camille Pissarro
1830-1903 | French
Deux laboureurs dans un champ
(Two Plowmen in a Field)
Signed with artist's monogram "C.P." (lower right)
Pencil on paper
Throughout his career, Camille Pissarro elevated the lives of rural workers, portraying their labor with honesty, dignity and profound humanity. This intimate drawing of two workers comes from an important period in the Impressionist master’s career. After decades devoted largely to landscape painting, Pissarro increasingly turned his. . .
1830-1903 | French
Deux laboureurs dans un champ
(Two Plowmen in a Field)
Signed with artist's monogram "C.P." (lower right)
Pencil on paper
Throughout his career, Camille Pissarro elevated the lives of rural workers, portraying their labor with honesty, dignity and profound humanity. This intimate drawing of two workers comes from an important period in the Impressionist master’s career. After decades devoted largely to landscape painting, Pissarro increasingly turned his. . .
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Camille Pissarro
1830-1903 | French
Deux laboureurs dans un champ
(Two Plowmen in a Field)
Signed with artist's monogram "C.P." (lower right)
Pencil on paper
Throughout his career, Camille Pissarro elevated the lives of rural workers, portraying their labor with honesty, dignity and profound humanity. This intimate drawing of two workers comes from an important period in the Impressionist master’s career. After decades devoted largely to landscape painting, Pissarro increasingly turned his attention to the human figure, creating works across a range of media that explored the lives of rural laborers and peasant women who became central subjects in his art.
Depicting two figures tending to a field, the work captures the dignity and intimacy of rural life with extraordinary immediacy. Rendered with confident lines, the drawing demonstrates Pissarro’s mastery of form while preserving the freshness of a moment observed directly from life.
Born in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Pissarro was sent to school in Paris at the age of 11, where he first displayed a talent for drawing. In 1855, having convinced his parents of his determination to pursue a career as an artist rather than work in the family shipping business, he returned to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Suisse alongside Claude Monet. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Pissarro moved to England. Along with Monet, he painted a series of landscapes around South-East London and studied English landscape painters in the museums. When he returned home to Louveciennes a year later, Pissarro discovered that all but 40 of the 1,500 paintings he had left there—almost 20 years of work—had been vandalized.
In 1872, Pissarro settled in Pontoise, where he remained for the next 10 years, gathering a close circle of friends around him. Gauguin was among the many artists to visit him there, and Cézanne, who lived nearby, came for long periods to work and learn. In 1874, Pissarro participated in the first Impressionist exhibition and became the only painter to exhibit in all eight of their shows, underscoring why he is known today as the “Father of Impressionism.” His revolutionary approach to painting and his deeply human compositions had a profound effect on his contemporaries and the future of modern art. His work can be found in many of the most important museums and private collections throughout the world.
This work is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity on behalf of Joachim Pissarro and will be included in the artist's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of works on paper.
Circa 1895
Paper: 6 1/4" high x 11 1/4" wide (15.88 x 28.58 cm)
Frame: 18" high x 23 5/8" wide x 2 1/4" deep (45.72 x 60.01 x 5.72 cm)
Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland
Private collection, England
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
1830-1903 | French
Deux laboureurs dans un champ
(Two Plowmen in a Field)
Signed with artist's monogram "C.P." (lower right)
Pencil on paper
Throughout his career, Camille Pissarro elevated the lives of rural workers, portraying their labor with honesty, dignity and profound humanity. This intimate drawing of two workers comes from an important period in the Impressionist master’s career. After decades devoted largely to landscape painting, Pissarro increasingly turned his attention to the human figure, creating works across a range of media that explored the lives of rural laborers and peasant women who became central subjects in his art.
Depicting two figures tending to a field, the work captures the dignity and intimacy of rural life with extraordinary immediacy. Rendered with confident lines, the drawing demonstrates Pissarro’s mastery of form while preserving the freshness of a moment observed directly from life.
Born in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Pissarro was sent to school in Paris at the age of 11, where he first displayed a talent for drawing. In 1855, having convinced his parents of his determination to pursue a career as an artist rather than work in the family shipping business, he returned to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Suisse alongside Claude Monet. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Pissarro moved to England. Along with Monet, he painted a series of landscapes around South-East London and studied English landscape painters in the museums. When he returned home to Louveciennes a year later, Pissarro discovered that all but 40 of the 1,500 paintings he had left there—almost 20 years of work—had been vandalized.
In 1872, Pissarro settled in Pontoise, where he remained for the next 10 years, gathering a close circle of friends around him. Gauguin was among the many artists to visit him there, and Cézanne, who lived nearby, came for long periods to work and learn. In 1874, Pissarro participated in the first Impressionist exhibition and became the only painter to exhibit in all eight of their shows, underscoring why he is known today as the “Father of Impressionism.” His revolutionary approach to painting and his deeply human compositions had a profound effect on his contemporaries and the future of modern art. His work can be found in many of the most important museums and private collections throughout the world.
This work is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity on behalf of Joachim Pissarro and will be included in the artist's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of works on paper.
Circa 1895
Paper: 6 1/4" high x 11 1/4" wide (15.88 x 28.58 cm)
Frame: 18" high x 23 5/8" wide x 2 1/4" deep (45.72 x 60.01 x 5.72 cm)
Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland
Private collection, England
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
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Specifications
| Maker: | Pissarro, Camille |
| Period: | 1816-1918 |
| Origin: | France |
| Type: | Drawings |
| Style: | Impressionism |
| Depth: | 2.25 in. (5.72 cm) |
| Width: | 23.63 in. (60.01 cm) |
| Height: | 18.0 in. (45.72 cm) |
| Canvas Width: | 11.250 in. (28.58 cm) |
| Canvas Height: | 6.250 in. (15.88 cm) |
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For over a century, we've placed important art, rare jewels and exceptional objects with more than 14,000 collectors worldwide, and have been recognized by trusted publications including Robb Report, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and more.
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Full credit plus 5% annual appreciation for five years
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