Camille Pissarro
The Goose Girl at Montfoucault (White Frost)

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Artist Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)French, 1830–1903

CultureFrench

Titles

The Goose Girl at Montfoucault (White Frost)

Date1876

PlaceMontfoucault, France

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions22 3/4 × 28 3/4 in. (57.8 × 73 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.295

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

222 Beck Galleries

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Department

European Art, Beck Collection

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMaurice Barret-Décap (dates unknown), Paris, by 1929 [1]; [sold by him, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, “Catalogue des Tableax modernes . . . composant la collection de M. Maurice B. D. [Barret-Décap],” 12 December 1929, lot 10, illus. in b/w] [2]; [Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1929]; [Jacques Dubourg (1897–1981), Paris]; [purchased jointly by Sam Salz (Radomyśl Wielki, now Poland, 1894–New York, 1981), New York and M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 11 July 1949]; [Salz share purchased by M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 15 December 1950] [3]; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dickey (dates unknown), Ellicott City, Maryland, 26 November 1954; [sold by them, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, "Modern Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures," 11 December 1963, lot 60, as “La Gardeuse d’oies a Montfoucault (Gelee Blanche),” illus. in color] [4]; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beck, Houston, 1963; given to MFAH, 1998.

[1] Barret-Décap was a descendant of the collector François Depeaux (1853–1920) of Rouen. Though Barret-Décap inherited works that had been in Depeaux’s famed collection, it seems that this painting was not one of them.

[2] Digitized on INHA website: https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/70219/?offset=1#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmarks&n=0&q= (Accessed by Julia May Boddewyn, 2 December 2024).

[3] Knoedler inventory no. 6292. Painting stock book 10: A4783-A7177, 1952 January-1959 February, p. 172. Digitized on Getty Research Institute website:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2012m54b10 (Accessed by Julia May Boddewyn, 2 December 2024).

[4] Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dickey of Ellicott City, Maryland are identified as one of the sellers on the catalogue’s title page and the lot is identified as from their collection. Their dates and her name could not be confirmed.

Exhibition History"Premières Époques de Camille Pissarro," Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris, 1936.

"The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1974.

"Pissarro," Hayward Gallery, London; Grand Palais, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980–81.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: signed and dated, lower left: C. Pissarro 75

verso printed label with additions in ink: m[circled] réunion des musée nationaux / Titre de l'oeuvre: Gardeuse d'oies à Montfoucault / Propriétaire: J. A. Jones Beck coll. / Numéro du catalogue: 43

verso printed label with typed additions: Arts Council of Great Britain / 165 Picadilly London [illegible numbers] / exhibition CAMILLE PISSARRO 1980 / cat, no. 43 / artist Camille Pissarro / title The goose girl at Montfoucault (frost) / 1875 / owner The John A. and Audrey Jones Beck collection

verso top of frame printed label: THE MUSEUM OF FINE / ARTS HOUSTON PISSARRO, Camille The Goose Girl at Montfoucault, 1875 / 22 3/4 x 26 5/8 / Frame Origin FRANCE, Paris Century 2nd qir 18th Style Louis XV Profile Ogee / Ornament Carved oak [illegible] and flower sight, reed-&-leaf rail, cabochon back; all re-cut in gesso / TR 531-2000[in pencil] / Finish Original mat and burnished water gilding / Stock No [illegible] Date Sight Size 25 x 31 1/4 in. Width 4 1/4 in. / Proposal B original frame [illegible] Overall size of picture in this frame 31.25 x 37.25 in / NEW BOND STREET / LONDON PAUL MITCHELL LTD / Antique & Reproduction Frames Tel 0171 492 3732 / Fax 0171 409 3738

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