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CAMILLE PISSARRO
Rue de l’Épicerie, à Rouen
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Drypoint printed in black on cream laid paper, 1886. 170x150 mm;
6
3
/
4
x6 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). One of approximately
only 4 or 5 lifetime impressions printed before steel-facing of the plate
in this state, from a total of approximately only 7 lifetime impressions
before steel-facing and 8 impressions after steel-facing in both states
combined. Signed, titled and inscribed “no. 3” in pencil, lower margin.
A superb, dark impression with richly-inked, velvety burr.
We have found only four other lifetime impressions before steel-facing
at auction in the past 30 years.
This etching shows a cropped, more close-up view to that in Pissarro’s
later oil on canvas,
Lumière du soleil, après midi, la rue de L’Épicerie, à
Rouen
, 1898 (Pissarro/Snollaerts 1223). Pissarro painted this view four
times, with each canvas capturing the different effects of sunlight on the
city center (the version at the Metropolitan Museum of Art also shows
the city’s Friday market in progress). On August 19, 1898, Pissarro wrote
to his son Lucien, “Yesterday I found an excellent place from which I
can paint the rue de l’Épicerie and even the market, a really interesting
one, which takes place every Friday.”The view is looking away from the
Seine, up the rue de l’Épicerie toward the Cathédral Notre-Dame de
Rouen. Delteil 64.
[7,000/10,000]
PISSARRO,
Rue de l’Épicerie, Rouen
, oil on canvas, 1898.
Image ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork/
Courtesy Art Resource, NewYork.