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A Corner Meadow at Eragny
Presented by Mrs Esther Pissarro, the artist's daughter-in-law 1951
adults
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
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Eragny
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France, Ile-de-France
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orchard
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summer
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village
<p>This painting depicts a view of part of the garden at the artist's home in Normandy. Beyond the wall lie other houses in the village of Eragny. The figure in the orchard is the artist's wife. Pissarro was interested in the relationship between man and his environment, and most of his landscapes are peopled, or reflect a human presence. Here the female figure complements the quiet, domestic nature of the orchard scene. True to the Impressionist principle of recording the effects of light and atmosphere, Pissarro noted on the back of this canvas that he had painted it during mornings in October, between the hours of 10.00 and 12.30.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-06-21
International Modern Art
Collection based display
13 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
2005-01-02
13 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
2005-01-02
2004-10-13
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK)
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
2004-10-13
The Pissarro Family at Home
Loan-out
1 December 2011 – 10 June 2012
2012-06-10
15 December 2011 – 10 March 2012
2012-03-10
2011-12-15
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (Exeter, UK)
http://www.exeter.gov.uk
11 March 2012 – 10 June 2012
2012-06-10
2012-03-11
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
2011-12-01
Into the Light, French & British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920's
Loan-out
4 June 2013 – 26 January 2014
2014-01-26
4 June 2013 – 15 September 2013
2013-09-15
2013-06-04
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
15 October 2013 – 26 January 2014
2014-01-26
2013-10-15
CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
http://www3.lacaixa.es
2013-06-04
Camille Pissarro
Loan-out
11 February 2016 – 11 February 2017
2017-02-11
11 February 2016 – 11 February 2017
2017-02-11
2016-02-11
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2016-02-11
Interventions into The Garman Ryan Collection
Loan-out
22 March 2017 – 23 July 2017
2017-07-23
22 March 2017 – 23 July 2017
2017-07-23
2017-03-22
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
2017-03-22
Pissarro à Éragny, l'anarchie et la nature
Loan-out
14 June 2025 – 8 February 2026
2026-02-08
14 June 2025 – 28 September 2025
2025-09-28
2025-06-14
Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)
26 October 2025 – 8 February 2026
2026-02-08
2025-10-26
Denver Art Museum (Denver, USA)
2025-06-14
Camille Pissarro: A Retrospective
Loan-out
A Corner of the Meadow at Eragny
support: 600 × 813 mm
frame: 857 × 1056 × 95 mm
Presented by Mrs Esther Pissarro, the artist's daughter-in-law 1951
<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> depicts a view of part of the garden  at the artist's home in Normandy. Beyond the wall  lie other houses in the village of Eragny. The  figure in the orchard is the artist's wife.  Pissarro was interested in the relationship  between man and his environment, and most of his  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> are peopled, or reflect a human  presence. Here the female figure complements the  quiet, domestic nature of the orchard scene. True  to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionist</span></a> principle of recording the  effects of light and atmosphere, Pissarro noted on  the back of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> that he had painted it  during mornings in October, between the hours of  10.00 and 12.30.</p>
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<p><b>Camille Pissarro</b><span> 1830-1903 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pissarro-a-corner-of-the-meadow-at-eragny-n06003" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06003</span></a> </span><b>Un Coin du Pré à Eragny</b><span> (A Corner of the Meadow at Eragny) 1902 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'C. Pissarro. 1902' b.r. and 'Un coin du pr</span><span>é</span><span>
à Eragny' on the stretcher</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 32 (60 x 81)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Mrs Lucien Pissarro to the National Gallery 1951; transferred 1953</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Lucien Pissarro, London; Mrs Lucien Pissarro, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Pictures by Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Stafford Gallery, London, October 1911 (25) as 'Coin du pré, matin automne'; </span><i>Rétrospective des Oeuvres de Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Galerie Manzi et Joyant, Paris, January-February 1914 (24); </span><i>The Monarro Group</i><span>, Goupil Gallery, London, February 1920 (125); </span><i>Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1931 (9); Birmingham City Art Gallery, October-November 1931 (9); Castle Museum, Nottingham, November-December 1931; War Memorial Art Gallery, Stockport, January 1932 (21); Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, February-March 1932 (20); Bootle Public Museum, April-May 1932 (20); Leeds City Art Gallery, July 1932 (24); Northampton Art Gallery, August-September 1932 (3); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, September 1932 (3); Rochdale Art Gallery, October-November 1932; </span><i>C. Pissarro</i><span>, Stafford Gallery, London, May-June 1939 (4); </span><i>Famous Jewish Artists of the Past</i><span>, Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, June-July 1949 (34); </span><i>Pissarro in England</i><span>, Marlborough Fine Art, London, June-July 1968 (28, repr.)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, </span><i>Camille Pissarro: son Art - son Oeuvre</i><span> (Paris 1939), No.1263, Vol.1, p.256, repr. Vol.2, pl.246</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Vogue</i><span>, March 1920, pp.76-7 </span>
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<p><span>The orchard-cum-vegetable garden of Pissarro's house at Eragny, the house itself being out of sight to the right; beyond the wall lie other houses in the village. The figure in the orchard is the artist's wife. Pissarro - Venturi Nos.1261 and 1262 (also dated 1902) show related views. </span>
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<p><span>On the back of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> is the following inscription in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/charcoal" title="Glossary definition for 'Charcoal'"><span>charcoal</span></a> in the artist's hand: </span>
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<p><span>En octobre</span>
<br/><span>Entre juin et juillet [this line has been erased]</span>
<br/><span>de 10h. à midi ½</span>
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<p><span>As Pissarro returned to Eragny from Dieppe about the beginning of October 1902, and the view seems to be an autumnal one, the inscription may be taken to mean that the picture was painted then. The phrase 'de 10 h. à midi ½' means presumably that it was a morning effect and that Pissarro worked on it only between the hours of 10 am and half-past twelve. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.613-14, reproduced p.613</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Eragny figure France, Ile-de-France garden structures orchard people places seasons summer townscapes / man-made features village