Women Minding Cows (Femmes gardant des vaches)

1889, Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper, 22 cm x 28 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij, the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the members of the Yellow House Circle)

What is it?
What can you see?
Context
printmaker

Object data

Object number
p2874S2018
Edition
2/7, 3rd state of 3 "épreuve d'artiste"
Dimensions
22 cm x 28 cm, 6.1 cm x 9.8 cm, 6.1 cm x 9.8 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Delteil 88

Inscription/label

signature
c. Pissarro. by Pissarro, Camille
inscription
n° 2 Epreuve d'artiste femmes gardant des vaches.
number
L.D.88.
number
12x9,5 20x22 ------ 32x31,5
inscription
[...] artiste
number
L.D.88- PEP
mark
IHZA MÜ[...]LANDSB.STR. , stempel uit München
watermark
VAN GELDER

Literature

  • Loys Delteil ; suppl. by Jean Cailac ; ed. by Alan Hyman, Camille Pissarro : l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié = the etchings and lithographs : catalogue raisonné, 1999, p. 192
  • Rimgaila Salys ; with an introd. by Jon Whiteley, Degas & Pissarro : alchimie d'une rencontre, 1998, p. 102
  • Camille Pissarro ; comm. de Jeanine Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, 1980-1991, p. 228-231 (3), 447-453, 475-476 (4), 88-91 (5)