Autumn morning in Éragny

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Matin, automne, Éragny (Camille Pissarro)
Matin, automne, Éragny
Camille Pissarro , 1892
Oil on canvas
55 × 46 cm
From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal

Herbstmorgen in Éragny (French original title: Matin, automne, Éragny ) is a painting by the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro from 1892. It has been part of the collection of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal since 1964 .

description

The painting shows a rural landscape in the French Éragny (also Éragny-sur-Oise or Éragny-sur-Epte ), a small village around 100 kilometers north of Paris . The artist spent the last 19 years of his life there and often traveled from Éragny to Paris to sell his pictures and meet artist friends. In the foreground is a green meadow with some fruit trees. The meadow has a golden to light brown sheen, this could be the hint of leaves falling from the trees. A little further back you can see an ox cart . Further animals can be seen indistinctly further back. Buildings can be seen between the trees in the background. The sky is very cloudy with a purple shimmer and the indistinct execution on the horizon - to be interpreted as haze - underlines the autumn mood in the picture.

The work was created from an elevated position, with a view of the fruit trees. Either the work was created as an open-air painting from a hill or Pissarro painted it from a window on an upper floor of a house.

Pissarro's work is executed as an oil on canvas and has the portrait format 55 × 46 cm. The signature is on the lower left: “C. Pissarro. 1892 ".

It bears the inventory number G 1148 of the Wuppertal Von der Heydt Museum. In the catalog raisonné by Camille Pissarro published by Paul Rosenberg in 1939 and edited by the two authors Ludovic Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi , the painting Matin, automne, Éragny bears the number 816 . In the 2005 catalog of works ( initiated by Daniel Wildenstein ) it has the number 962 , here the work is listed with the title Pommiers à Éragny, autome .

The motif of the landscape around Éragny Pissarro used in other works, which he carried out in the 1890s. Around 160 works were created in and around Éragny at this time. Another painting, also known under the German title Herbstmorgen in Éragny (French original title: Matin d'automne à Éragny ), was painted by Pissarro in 1897. The work Herbstmorgen in Éragny was created after Pissarro's pointillist phase, when he in the mid-1980s Met artists Paul Signac and Georges Seurat and tried out their painting techniques. The apple harvest in Éragny (French original title: La récolte des pommes à Éragny ) can also be seen as a work from this phase . Around 1890 Pissarro turned back to “his” original, freer Impressionism, but autumn morning in Éragny from 1892 shows a pointillist influence.

Provenance and exhibitions

The provenance of the painting is documented as follows: First, the work was bought by the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in Paris on March 17, 1893. On October 17, 1913, it was handed over from Durand-Ruel to Paul Cassirer (Berlin), contact with Durand-Ruel then broke off with the beginning of the First World War. Without Durand-Ruel's knowledge, Cassirer sold the work to Georg Caspari (Munich) on October 25, 1917. It was bought back by Cassirer on March 16, 1918 and sold to Fritz Schön (Ascona) on March 16, 1918. The work then came into the possession of the Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin, from where Eduard von der Heydt (then living in Ascona) acquired it around 1935. Upon his death, it was decreed that it would become the property of the Von der Heydt Museum as part of his legacy in 1964.

In March 1893 the picture was shown at the exhibition 4e exposition particulière de Camille Pissarro in Paris in the gallery Durand-Ruel, in the exhibition Tableaux et gouaches par Camille Pissarro in January 1910 in the same gallery. It was also on view from June to September 1935 in Brussels in the exhibition L´Impressionnisme in the Palais des Beaux-Arts and in 2014/2015 at Pissarro - The Father of Impressionism in Wuppertal. The painting was temporarily on loan from the Heydts to the Lucerne Art Museum and the Stockholm National Museum .

literature

  • Uta Laxner-Gerlach: Catalog of the paintings of the 19th century . Ed .: From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Wuppertal 1974, p. 168 .
  • Ulrike Becks-Malorny, Antje Birthälmer, Sabine Fehlemann, Erika Günther, Herbert Pogt, Constanze Stiegler: The paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Wienand, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 493 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the picture index it is described that a horse is shown there. The silhouette, especially in the posture of the neck, goes much more with an ox than with a horse.
  2. ↑ a b c From the painting index; with the kind support of the library manager of the Von der Heydt Museum in February 2015.
  3. ↑ Erika Günther: Catalog of the paintings of the 19th century . Wienand, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 131 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Ludovic Rodolphe Pissarro , Lionello Venturi : Camille Pissarro. Son Art - son œuvre. A catalog raisonné . Ed .: Paul Rosenberg . Paris 1939, p. 195 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e catalog raisonné . tape III , 2005, p. 629 .
  6. ↑ Erika Günther: Guide to paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Fritz Altgott, Mönchengladbach 1996, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 132 .