Camille Pissarro – The Harvest. Ink wash and pencil on paper. 1882.

Camille Pissarro (1830.1903)

Original drawings – The Harvest.

Ink and pencil wash on paper.

Pontoise. Circa 1881-82.

Double-sided drawings, stamped "CP" (L613B) on both sides.

Format 16 x 21 cm.

Magnificent preparatory studies by the Impressionist master sketching the rural work of several figures engaged in harvesting the lands of Pontoise.

This study is similar to the oil on canvas entitled "The Harvest" exhibited by Pissarro at the seventh Impressionist exhibition in March 1882. "The Harvest" is now kept at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

Provenance: Georges Couturat, Paris, c.1930, then descendants.

A major art dealer, patron, and collector in the early 20th century, Georges Couturat was a friend of painters. He worked to promote the work of artists such as Manguin, Camoin, Cross, Signac, etc., and assembled an extraordinary collection of several hundred works, including one of Caillebotte's masterpieces, "The Man on the Balcony.".

The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Camille Pissarro's drawings currently being prepared by Joachim Pissarro.