Camille Pissarro, Bords de rivière

Property from an Important California Collection, Formerly in the Personal Collection of Edgar Degas
Camille Pissarro
1830 - 1903
Bords de rivière

Signed C. Pissarro. and dated 1871 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
10 5/8 by 16 in. (27 by 40.6 cm)
Framed: 18 1/4 by 23 3/4 in. (46.4 by 60.3 cm)
Painted in 1871.

Condition Report:
This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. All four edges have been taped. A few minor scattered cracks. The canvas is slightly dirty. Under UV light: A few extremely hairline strokes of inpainting scattered across the sky, most notably along the center of the top edge. A few additional hairline strokes of inpainting to the center of the water, just below the building at the center of the composition.

Provenance:
Edgar Degas, Paris (and sold by the estate: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, March 26, 1918, lot 87)

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (probably acquired at the above sale)

H. G. Turitz, Gothenburg, Sweden

L. Harper Gow (and sold: Sotheby's, London, March 31, 1965, lot 16)

Edward J. Speelman, London (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, South Africa

Noortman & Brod, New York

Acquired from the above on December 17, 1983