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Peasant: le Père Melon (Paysan: le père melon)
Camille Pissarro, 1879

Peasant: le Père Melon (Paysan: le père melon)

1879, Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)

etching, aquatint and drypoint in black on wove paper, 22.7 cm x 31.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the BankGiro Loterij, the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the members of The Yellow House)

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Object number
p2901S2018
Edition
5th state of 6
Dimensions
22.7 cm x 31.5 cm, 10.5 cm x 16.3 cm, 10.5 cm x 16.3 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Delteil 25

Inscription/label

inscription
Le paysan [...] repos. c. Pissarro
mark
ATELIER ED. DEGAS by Degas, Edgar, Lugt no 657
number
D 25

  • 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. 50-51
  • Rimgaila Salys ; with an introd. by Jon Whiteley, Degas & Pissarro : alchimie d'une rencontre, 1998, p. 62-63
  • Michel Melot, Camille Pissarro : impressions gravées, 2017, p. 52-53
  • Camille Pissarro ; comm. de Jeanine Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, 1980-1991, p. 228-231 (3), 447-453 (4)

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