Camille PISSARRO - The Harvest. Ink wash and pencil on paper. 1882.

Magnificent preparatory studies by the impressionist master sketching the rural work of several characters busy harvesting the lands of Pontoise.

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Camille Pissarro (1830.1903)

Original drawings – The Harvest.

Ink wash and pencil on paper.

Pontoise. Circa 1881-82.

Double-sided designs, stamped “CP” (L613B) on both sides.

Size 16 x 21 cm.

Magnificent preparatory studies by the impressionist master sketching the rural work of several characters busy harvesting the lands of Pontoise.

This study can be compared to the oil on canvas entitled “The Harvest” exhibited by Pissarro during the seventh impressionist exhibition in March 1882. “The Harvest” is today kept at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

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

A great merchant, patron and collector of the first part of the 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 constituted an extraordinary collection of several hundred works including one of Caillebotte's masterpieces, “L'homme au balcony”.

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