La Charcutière
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| La Charcutière |
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| Camille Pissarro , 1883 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 65.1 x 54.3 cm |
| Tate Gallery , London |
La Charcutière (also The butcher or butcher at the weekly market ) is a painting by the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903). It was created in 1883 and is located in the Tate Gallery in London with inventory number NO5576 .
Image description
The picture shows the hustle and bustle of a weekly market . The central figure is a butcher who prepares and presents her goods in the market. She has the features of a young woman, her hair is tied up. She stands under her covered market stall, is shown on the side and bent over to the left. With a knife she is holding in her right hand, she is cutting up meat on a board on her stand. There are other goods on the table that are offered for sale. Under the table are boxes and baskets in which she brings her goods to the market. Her clothes are kept in shades of brown and red. She has tied a large white apron in front of her body and her arms are protected with white sleeves. The white apron forms the resting center in the midst of the numerous shapes.
Another woman with a headscarf stands on the right edge of the picture. She is shown frontally and looks at the display of a stand that is only half visible in the picture. In the background of the picture, what is happening on the busy market is represented by other market stalls and other people. The people are shown from behind and in profile, they wear similar clothing as the two women in the foreground. The figures stand out delicately from the background and are still closely linked to their surroundings. The picture is signed lower right with C. Pissarro 1883 .
It bears the Tate Gallery's inventory number NO5576 . In the catalog raisonné by Camille Pissarro published by Paul Rosenberg in 1939 , the painting bears the number 615 . In the catalog raisonné published in 2005 it has the number 706 .
History of origin
Pissarro was interested in rural market scenes in Pontoise since 1881 . Even with the move to Osny at the end of 1882, interest remained and he continued to work on these topics. He wrote to his son Lucien in February 1883: I'm stuck here, I'm working as hard as I can on the landscapes I've begun and on my market painting, which I've completely altered. ( I do not move from the spot and work as much as I can on the landscapes I have begun and on my picture of the market, which I have completely changed. ) X-ray examinations have confirmed this statement by Pissarro. The figure on the right edge of the picture was originally shown in profile and tilted to the left. The main character had the facial features of an elderly peasant woman. This replaced Pissarro with that of his niece Eugénie Estruc (Nini, 1863-1931). Around July 30, 1883, Pissarro wrote to his son again: Nini is back in Osny, I'm making drawing based on her as a preparation for some market painting. So, unlike Pissarro's other works, the painting was not observed as a whole, but composed of individual parts.
Provenance
The picture was in the possession of Pissarro's son Lucien . He bequeathed it to the National Gallery in London in 1944 . From there it was transferred to the Tate Gallery in 1950 and loaned to the National Gallery in 1997.
Exhibitions
- 1912: Pictures by Camille Pissarro , Stafford Gallery, London
- 1913: Post-Impressionist and Futurist Exhibition , The Doré Galleries, London
- 1920: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Camille Pissarro , The Leicester Galleries, London
- 1930: Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro , Musée de l'Orangerie , Paris
- 1931/1932: Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro (traveling exhibition in the United Kingdom)
- 1939: Constable, Bonington, C. Pissarro , The Stafford Gallery, London
- 1980/1981: Pissarro , Hayward Gallery , London (October 30, 1980 to January 11, 1981), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Pairs (January 30 - April 27, 1981) and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (May 19, 1981) - August 9, 1981)
- 1990: Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labor , City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
- 1994: Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator , The Israel Museum , Jerusalem
- 1999: Camille Pissarro , State Gallery
- 2014: Pissarro - The Father of Impressionism , Von der Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
literature
- John Rewald. (Translated from English: Susanne B. Milczewsky): C. Pissarro . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1963, p. 134 .
- La Charcutière in: Wildenstein Institute , Joachim Pissarro , Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts : Pissarro - Catalog critique des peintures / Critical Catalog of Paintings. Volume II. Wildenstein Institute, Paris, and Skira editore, 2005; ISBN 88-7624-526-X
Individual evidence
- ^ John Rewald (translated from English: Susanne B. Milczewsky): C. Pissarro . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1963, p. 134 .
- ^ Ludovic Rodolphe Pissarro , Lionello Venturi : Camille Pissarro. Son Art - son œuvre. A catalog raisonné . Ed .: Paul Rosenberg . Paris 1939, p. 195 .
- ↑ Catalog of Works (2005) Vol. III . 2005, p. 471 .
- ↑ Erika Günther: Von der Heydt Museum The paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . Wienand, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 131 .
- ↑ Richard Nathanson: Camille Pissarro ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 26, 2015.
