Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011069Rue Damiette, Rouen
About the Artwork
This drawing was created during an early trip of many that Camille Pissarro took to Rouen, a port city in northern France. It inspired the artist to create a virtually identical etching around the same time, and may have served as a preparatory sketch for that work. A founding member of the Impressionist group, Pissarro spent much of his career painting the rural and landscape outdoors and paid particular attention to the effects of weather and natural light. Here, the gray skies over the town echo the muted tone of the stone buildings that occupy a quiet side street.
Inscriptions
signed, across bottom, in black crayon: C Pissarro Rue Daumiette à Rouen; watermark: JWhatman / Turkeyhill
Provenance
Before 1927-1968: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, OH, donated to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1968-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD (organizer) (October 26-December 4, 1977); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (January 9-February 19, 1978); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (April 1-May 14, 1978). The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- c. 1884
- Medium
- black chalk and watercolor on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Accession no.
- 1968.357
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