Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in the sunlight

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Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in the sunlight (Camille Pissarro)
Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in the sunlight
Camille Pissarro , 1898
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 65.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City

Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight (Original: La Rue de l'Épicerie à Rouen, effet de soleil ) is a painting by the French painter Camille Pissarro from 1898, which he painted in Rouen . The picture shows a street in front of the Rouen Cathedral , where a weekly market is taking place. It is part of a series of three images with a similar perspective. The painting has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1960 .

Image description

The picture shows the Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen during a weekly market on a bright summer day. The painter depicts the street from an elevated position, probably from the window of a building. In the background is the south side of the cathedral, which rises behind the houses.

The image is divided horizontally into three parts. In the lower third it shows the busy street and the market with its visitors. The numerous people are painted in little detail with short colored lines so that they are perceived as a crowd. Individual facial features are just as unrecognizable as the type of displays at the market stalls. While individual, large-scale umbrellas can be seen on the left edge of the picture, there are stands covered with tarpaulins on the right, which protect the goods from the sun.

The middle area shows the development of the street with the three- to four-story houses. The rows of houses are characterized by a row of shops on the ground floor, above which are several residential floors marked by rows of windows. On the front of the corner house on Rue de l'Épicerie facing the market, there are numerous colored billboards, but the lettering is illegible due to the fleeting style of painting. While in the front area on both sides mainly flatter dark roofs, dormers and chimneys characterize the view, in the rear area the houses in front of the cathedral have pointed gables with red tiles. Above the roofs, the south side of the cathedral and the sky that can be seen between and next to the towers occupy the top third of the picture. Of the richly decorated building in light gray and brown tones, only the areas that tower above the house gable are visible. The Tour Saint-Romain (Saint Romanus Tower) and the Tour de Beurre (Butter Tower) rise on the left, the central nave and the high crossing tower, the spire of which is cut off from the upper edge of the picture , on the left . The sky over the scene is a sunny light blue with white clouds.

The picture is signed on the lower left edge and inscribed in two lines with “C. Pissarro / 1898 ".

Background and origin

Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, matin, temps mouillé

On August 19, 1898, Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien Pissarro that he had found a nice place to paint the Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen and the weekly market on Fridays in front of the cathedral. The Rue de l'Épicerie is one of the oldest and most famous streets in the city and is emphasized by residential buildings from the 17th century. It extends to the Place Haute-Vieille-Tour on the south side of the Rouen Cathedral . Pissarro had already painted a picture of the cathedral two years earlier (VMS 1114), although he mainly concentrated on the cathedral. He was referring to the famous series of the Cathedral of Rouen by Claude Monet .

The picture Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight , was created as one of a series of three pictures that he depicted at different times of the day and in different lighting conditions. Only in the picture Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight the weekly market is shown, the other two pictures Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, matin, temps mouillé (currently on permanent loan from a private collection in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam ) and Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, fin d'après-midi (currently on permanent loan from the Yoshino Gypsum Collection, Tokyo, in the Yamagata Museum of Art in Yamagata , Japan) show the street without a market. In terms of structure and viewing angle, Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen corresponds to the morning scene at Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen in sunlight , matin, temps mouillé while Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, fin d'après-midi from a slightly different perspective in which the south transept of the cathedral is visible at the end of the street.

Provenance and exhibitions

The painting Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight , has been in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1960 .

Provenance

On October 21, 1898, the year it was created, the gallery owner Paul Durand-Ruel bought the picture by Pissarro for 1,500 francs , together with the second picture in the series Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, matin, temps mouillé . He sold it to Louis Bernard on March 21, 1900 for 5,000 francs, the second painting remained in the possession of the Durand-Ruel family and was only auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1985 . On May 11, 1901, Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight, was auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot auction house for 8,000 francs to Maurice Leclanché. On November 6, 1925, it was again auctioned at Drouot. Auguste Savard bought the picture for 83,000 francs. He sold it to Roger Varenne in Geneva through an intermediary in 1939 or 1940 . He sold the picture in 1960 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which used endowment funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Fund .

Exhibitions

The picture has been shown in numerous exhibitions, mainly in Europe and the United States , but also in Japan and Australia . In February and March 1928 it was shown in the gallery Durand-Ruel in the exhibition Tableaux par Camille Pissarro . The next documented exhibition of the picture took place from January to March 1957 at the Kunstmuseum Bern in the exhibition Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903 on loan from Roger Varenne, who also used the picture from March to May 1959 for the exhibition De Gericault à Matisse: Chefs- d'œuvre français des collections suisses at the Petit Palais in Paris. The picture was first presented in New York in 1965 when it was shown in the Wildenstein & Co. gallery as part of the C. Pissarro exhibition . A year later, the picture was as part of the exhibition Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York in the gallery M Knoedler & Co to see. From September to November 1970, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston showed the picture as part of the Masterpieces of Painting exhibition in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . In 1972 the picture came to Japan, where it was shown from August to October in the Tokyo National Museum and then from October to November in the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in the exhibition Treasured Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art .

In 2007, Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen was part of the exhibition The most beautiful French come from New York in Berlin.

In 1975 the picture was loaned to Russia and shown there in the exhibition 100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum from May to July in the Hermitage in Leningrad and from August to November in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow . In May to August 1981 the picture was again in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for the Pissarro exhibition . From December 1999 to May 2000 the picture was shown - for the first time in Germany - in the exhibition Camille Pissarro in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart . In 2005 the picture traveled again and was shown in the Australian exhibition Camille Pissarro in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and then in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne . In 2007, from February to May, the exhibition The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920 took place at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , in the same year the picture was shown from June to October in Berlin in the exhibition The Most Beautiful French come from New York ; 19th century French masterpieces shown from the Metropolitan Museum of Art . From June to September 2010 the exhibition A City for Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin took place in Rouen at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen .

supporting documents

  1. a b c d La Rue de l'Épicerie à Rouen, effet de soleil (WVZ 1221) In: Wildenstein Institute, Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005; P. 763.
  2. a b c d Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (Effect of Sunlight) - Object Information in: The Collection Online in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Retrieved February 1, 2015
  3. a b c Camille Pissarro - Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight In: Angela Schneider, Anke Daemgen, Gary Tinterow: The most beautiful French come from New York. French masterpieces of the 19th century. Nicolaische Verlangsbuchnadlung, Berlin 2007; P. 190. ISBN 978-3-89479-381-4
  4. a b Les Toits du vieux Rouen, cathédrale Notre-Dame, temps gris (WVZ 1221) In: Wildenstein Institute, Joachim Pissarro , Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005; P. 702.
  5. a b c Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, matin, temps mouillé (WVZ 1222) In: Wildenstein Institute, Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005; P. 764.
  6. Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, fin d'après-midi (VMS 1223) In: Wildenstein Institute, Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005; P. 764.

literature

  • La Rue de l'Épicerie à Rouen, effet de soleil in: Wildenstein Institute , Joachim Pissarro , Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts : Pissarro - Catalog critique des peintures / Critical Catalog of Paintings. Volume III. Wildenstein Institute, Paris, and Skira editore, 2005; 763. ISBN 88-7624-526-X
  • Camille Pissarro - Rue de l'Épicerie in Rouen, in sunlight In: Angela Schneider, Anke Daemgen, Gary Tinterow: The most beautiful French come from New York. French masterpieces of the 19th century. Nicolaische Verlangsbuchnadlung, Berlin 2007; P. 190. ISBN 978-3-89479-381-4

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