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| Artist | Pissarro, Camille (French painter and printmaker, 1831-1903) |
| Title | The Tuileries Gardens, Paris |
| Original title | Le Jardin de Tuileries |
| Date | 1900 (dated) |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 74 x 92.6 cm |
| Inscription | front lr 'C Pissarro. 1900' |
| Description | During the last eight years of Camille Pissarro life, his subject matter changed dramatically, from rural life to urban subjects. Many of these canvases were painted in series, Pissarro undoubtedly being inspired by the example of Monet's series paintings. In a letter to his son Lucien in December 1898, Pissarro wrote of his intention to paint a series of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. His first series of fourteen views of the Tuileries Gardens was painted in 1899 and a second group - of which this is one, again of fourteen views - was painted in early 1900. |
| Subject | townscape; buildings and gardens; place (Paris) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 2811 |
| Acquisition details | Given by Sir John Richmond CBE 1948. |
| Provenance | Durand-Ruel, Paris (?); Alex Reid, Glasgow; from whom purchased by Sir John Richmond CBE, March 1911, £220. |
| Principal exhibitions | The Spirit of France, French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1943, cat. no. 26; A Century of French Art 1840-1940, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1944, cat. no. 187; 123rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1949, cat. no. 276; Modern Pictures from a Private Collection, Arts Council Scottish Tour, Edinburgh, 1949-50, cat. no. 279; Art Institute, Paisley, 1952; A Man of Influence, Alex Reid 1854-1928, Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow, 1967, cat. no. 36; Boudin to Picasso, Masterpieces from Kelvingrove, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1968; Camille Pissarro 1830-1903, Hayward Gallery, London (touring), 1980-81, cat. no. 85; Glasgow 1900, Art and Design, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1992-93, cat. no. 84; The Impressionists and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings, Museum of Art, Dallas (touring), 1992-93, cat. no. 84; Masterpieces of French 19th Century Art from the Collections of Glasgow Museums, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (touring), 1994, cat. no. 25; Impressionism, The City and Modern Life, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, 1995-96; Camille Pissarro, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 1998 |
| Principal publications | Pissarro L. R. and Venturi L., Camille Pissarro, son art, son oeuvre, Paris 1939, cat. no. 1133; The Spirit of France, French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1943, cat. no. 26; A Century of French Art 1840-1940, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1944, cat. no. 187, p. 22; 123rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1949, cat. no. 276; Modern Pictures from a Private Collection, Arts Council Scottish Tour, Edinburgh, 1949-50, cat. no. 279; Macaulay W. J., 'Some Additions to the Glasgow Art Collection', Scottish Art Review, vol. 4, cat. no. 3, 1953, ill. p. 15; Sturrock Alec, 'Impressionist Paintings in Glasgow', Apollo, vol. 57, 1953, p. 42; Scottish Art Review, vol. 6, cat no. 3, 1957, ill. p. 2; A Man of Influence, Alex Reid 1854-1928, Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow, 1967, cat. no. 36, p. 38, pl, 13; Boudin to Picasso, Masterpieces from Kelvingrove, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1968, ill. p.15; Camille Pissarro 1830-1903, Hayward Gallery, London (touring), 1980-81, cat. no. 85, pp.146-7; A Day in the Country, Impressionism and the French Landscape, New York, 1984, ill. p. 214; Glasgow 1900, Art and Design, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1992-93, cat. no. 84, ill. p. 42; The Impressionists and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings, Museum of Art, Dallas (touring), 1992-93, cat. no. 84, ill. p. 116; Masterpieces of French 19th Century Art from the Collections of Glasgow Museums, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (touring), 1994, cat. no. 25, pp. 86-7, ill. p. 200; Camille Pissarro, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 1998, pl, 52, p. 87 |
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| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Vivien Hamilton |
