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Sowing farmer / Le Semeur à Montfoucault / Semeur et Laboureur
Lost Art-ID
318013
Artist / Creator
Pissarro, Camille Jacob
Birth
1831.07.10, St. Thomas (West-Indien)
Death
1903.11.13, Paris
Place of activity
Paris; Montmorency; La Varenne-St.Hilaire; Pontoise; London; Eragny
Title
Sowing farmer / Le Semeur à Montfoucault / Semeur et Laboureur
Dating
1875 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas
Height
48.00 cm
Width
58.00 cm
Description
Signed at right bottom: "C. Pissarro 1875"
At a field that is demarcated by bushes in the foreground a farmer with basket is sewing. In the middle ground a stomping grey horse pulls an arable machine, that is leaded by another farmer. View above wide agriculture sides till the horizont.
Provenance
Leipzig, loss 1939; auctioned at Sotheby's in New York in 1997; amicable settlement with the heirs in 2009
Status
amicable settlement
Published since
Contact
Christian Hinrichsen
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