Landscape, St. Thomas (Translation)
Paysage à Saint-Thomas (Primary Title)
Camille Pissarro, French, 1830 - 1903 (Artist)
Heat seems to emanate from the surface of the shore and sea alike in this view of the Caribbean island of St. Thomas (today part of the United States Virgin Islands). Two of the island’s inhabitants seek a reprieve in the shade of the palm trees and shrubbery. The small number of Pissarro’s tropical landscapes suggests that the artist perhaps created these paintings as personal remembrances of his birthplace.
Signed and dated lower right: "C. Pizarro 1856"
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
2019-2020: "Van Gogh Monet Degas, The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", Palazzo Zabarella, Padua, Italy, October 26, 2019 - March 1, 2020
2019-2021: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 4, 2020 - January 10, 2021
2018-2019: "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17 - July 15, 2018; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 22 - September 22, 2019
2017: "Pissarro, Between Danish Golden Age Painting and French Impressionism", Ordrupgaard Museum for Fransk Impressionisme, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 9 - July 2, 2017
2015-2016: “From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller, His Caribbean, and the Era of Impressionism,” Brooklyn Museum, Jan.-March, 2015, and “a maximum of three additional venues through April 2016”
1975-1977: “The European Vision of America,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Dec. 7, 1975-Feb. 15, 1976; Cleveland Museum of Art, April 28-Aug. 8, 1976; Grand Palais, Paris, Sept. 17, 1976-Jan. 3, 1977
2019-2021: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 4, 2020 - January 10, 2021
2018-2019: "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17 - July 15, 2018; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 22 - September 22, 2019
2017: "Pissarro, Between Danish Golden Age Painting and French Impressionism", Ordrupgaard Museum for Fransk Impressionisme, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 9 - July 2, 2017
2015-2016: “From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller, His Caribbean, and the Era of Impressionism,” Brooklyn Museum, Jan.-March, 2015, and “a maximum of three additional venues through April 2016”
1975-1977: “The European Vision of America,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Dec. 7, 1975-Feb. 15, 1976; Cleveland Museum of Art, April 28-Aug. 8, 1976; Grand Palais, Paris, Sept. 17, 1976-Jan. 3, 1977
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