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Little Country Maid
Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1944
adults
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broom
chair
children
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countries and continents
cup / mug
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France
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Pissarro, Ludovic Rodolphe
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Pontoise
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<p>This domestic interior depicts the dining room in Pissarro's house at Osny, near Pontoise in the French countryside not far from Paris. The child shown sitting at the table is the artist's fourth son, Ludovic Rodolphe. Pissarro spent much of his life near Pontoise and several of his paintings depict the surrounding landscape and its inhabitants. In this picture he used the typical Impressionist device of cutting off objects at the edges of the painting, such as the table, chairs and the prints on the wall, in order to give the composition a sense of informality and immediacy. The small, feathery brushstrokes prefigure Pissarro's later Neo-Impressionist or Divisionist paintings.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
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
19 November 2005 – 28 May 2006
2006-05-28
19 November 2005 – 19 February 2006
2006-02-19
2005-11-19
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
3 March 2006 – 28 May 2006
2006-05-28
2006-03-03
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
2005-11-19
Camille Pissarro Retrospective
Loan-out
13 October 2007 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
13 October 2007 – 13 January 2008
2008-01-13
2007-10-13
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, USA)
23 February 2008 – 25 May 2008
2008-05-25
2008-02-23
Denver Art Museum (Denver, USA)
19 June 2008 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
2008-06-19
Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, USA)
2007-10-13
Impressionism and the Art of the Past
Loan-out
5 June 2011 – 22 January 2012
2012-01-22
5 June 2011 – 2 October 2011
2011-10-02
2011-06-05
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, USA)
http://www.clarkart.edu/
22 October 2011 – 22 January 2012
2012-01-22
2011-10-22
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (San Francisco, USA)
http://www.famsf.org
2011-06-05
Pissarro's People
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
12 October 2014 – 22 February 2015
2015-02-22
12 October 2014 – 22 February 2015
2015-02-22
2014-10-12
Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
2014-10-12
Camille Pissarro - Vater des Impressionismus
Loan-out
23 February 2017 – 2 July 2017
2017-07-02
23 February 2017 – 2 July 2017
2017-07-02
2017-02-23
Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris, France)
2017-02-23
Camille Pissarro
Loan-out
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
2025-05-01
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2025-05-01
National Gallery Bicentenary
Loan-out
The Little Country Maid
support: 635 × 530 mm
Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1944
<p>This domestic interior depicts the dining room in Pissarro's house at Osny, near Pontoise in the French countryside not far from Paris. The child shown sitting at the table is the artist's fourth son, Ludovic Rodolphe. Pissarro spent much of his life near Pontoise and several 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> depict the surrounding <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>landscape</span></a> and its inhabitants. In this picture he used the typical <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> device of cutting off objects at the edges of the painting, such as the table, chairs and 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/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> on the wall, in order to give 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/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> a sense of informality and immediacy. The small, feathery brushstrokes prefigure Pissarro's later <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/neo-impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Neo-Impressionism'"><span>Neo-Impressionist</span></a> or Divisionist paintings.</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-the-little-country-maid-n05575" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05575</span></a> </span><b>La Petite Bonne de Campagne</b><span> (The Little Country Maid) 1882 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'C. Pissarro. 82' t.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 7/8 (63.5 x 53)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro to the National Gallery 1944; transferred 1950</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Lucien Pissarro, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Post-Impressionist and Futurist Exhibition</i><span>, Doré Galleries, London, October 1913 (5); </span><i>Rétrospective des Oeuvres de Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Galerie Manzi et Joyant, Paris, January-February 1914 (49); </span><i>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, May 1920 (69); </span><i>Collection de Mme Vve Pissarro</i><span>, Galerie Nunès et Fiquet, Paris, May-June 1921 (24); </span><i>Modern French Paintings</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, September-October 1923 (39); </span><i>Centenaire de la Naissance de Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, February-March 1930 (55, repr.); </span><i>Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1931 (24); Birmingham City Art Gallery, October-November 1931 (19); Castle Museum, Nottingham, November-December 1931; War Memorial Art Gallery, Stockport, January 1932 (31); Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, February-March 1932 (29); Bootle Public Museum, April-May 1932 (30); Leeds City Art Gallery, July 1932 (15); Northampton Art Gallery, August-September 1932 (23); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, September 1932 (23); Rochdale Art Gallery, October-November 1932; </span><i>Honderd Jaar Fransche Kunst</i><span>, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, July-September 1938 (194, repr.); </span><i>19th Century French Pictures</i><span>, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, April-June 1960 (42)</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. 575, Vol.1, p.163, repr. Vol.2, pl.119; John Rewald, </span><i>Camille Pissarro</i><span> (London 1963), p.132, repr. p.133 in colour; William Gaunt, </span><i>The Impressionists</i><span> (London 1972), p.246, repr. pl.96 in colour</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
Georges Lecomte, </span><i>Camille Pissarro</i><span> (Paris 1922), facing p.70; A. Tabarant, </span><i>Pissarro</i><span>
(Paris 1924), pl.22 </span>
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<p><span>This represents a room in Pissarro's house at Osny, near Pontoise, and the child is his fourth son, Ludovic Rodolphe (1878-1952), later known as a painter and wood-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a> under the name Ludovic Rodo. He devoted many years to the preparation of a catalogue of his father's work. </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.611-12, reproduced p.611 </span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults boy broom chair children cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents cup / mug dining room domestic domestic domestic eating eating and drinking fine arts and music France furnishings individuals: male interiors kitchen leisure and pastimes maid named individuals objects people picture Pissarro, Ludovic Rodolphe places Pontoise portraits sweeping table tea pot woman work and occupations