Estate of the artist
Julie Pissarro, Paris (the wife of the artist; by descent from the above and sold: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, December 3, 1928, lot 265)
Georges Manzana-Pissarro, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 8, 1933, lot 19
Sale: Sotheby's, Parke Bernet, London, July 1, 1981, lot 308
Max Weitzenhoffer, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 1987, lot 107
Jeanne Frank Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above on March 1, 1999

Tokyo, Isetan Museum; Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum & Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Retrospective Camille Pissarro, 1984, n.n.

Lionel-Rodo Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art - son oeuvre, vol. 1, Paris, 1939, no. 137, p. 307

Executed on blue-colored laid paper. The original blue color of the paper has faded consistent with age. There is a sketch for another far shape on the verso. The sheet is slightly toned. There are some remnants of adhesive visible at six places along the edge of the recto of the sheet.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming Pissarro Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.