Camille Pissarro
The Highway (‘La Cote de Valhermeil’)
1879
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Camille Pissarro
The Highway (‘La Cote de Valhermeil’)
1879
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 25 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (64.1 x 80 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.280
Around 1880, Camille Pissarro painted a number of views of Valhermeil, a hamlet near Pontoise, northwest of Paris, where he settled after the Franco‑Prussian War. Here, the small regular touches of pigment in certain passages of the landscape, road, and sky suggest the direction he would pursue in 1885, when he adopted a Pointillist technique—methodically dotting the canvas with pure unmixed paint to create an illusion of more intense colors.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest, 1929; Claribel Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, August 3, 1929; Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne; M. Ruchonnet, Lausanne, Switzerland; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, by purchase, December 1913; Julie Pissaro, by inheritance, 1900; the artist (husband)
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The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1930, p.6, no.46. (Published as "Landscape")
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 26, pl. 10, ill. (Published as "La Grande Route")
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, "Camille Pissarro: Son Art - Son Oeuvre," Paris: Paul Rosenberg, 1939, vols. 1, 2, p. 152, no. 510, ill. (Published as "La Cote du Valhermeil")
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of the Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 21.
"Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, Collectors," "Art News," vol. XLVIII, no. 9, January 1950, p. 40.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1951, pp. 13, 32, 34, no. 99, ill.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 39, no. 99.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 17, 68, no. 94.
William A. McGonagle and Adelyn D. Breeskin, "Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists," Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum, 1969, pp. 52, 73, no. 42, ill.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection from the Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, no. 43.
Joel Isaacson, "The Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882," Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1979, pp. 154-155, no. 39, ill. (Published as "La Côte du Valhermeil")
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 119, 181, 182, 202, p. 181, ill.
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, p. 32, fig. 8, ill.
Bent Lantow, "Pissarro Contre la A104," "Vivre en Val-d'Oise," June-August 1998, n.p., ill.
Sona K. Johnston and William R. Johnston, "The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse," London: Scala Publishers, 2000, pp. 32, 41, 102-103, 156, no. 31, ill.
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from the Baltimore Museum of Art," Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2002, pp. 8, 20, no. 40, ill.
Sona K. Johnson et al, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art" catalogue committee, 2003, no. 90, p. 126, ill.
Terrence Maloon, "Camille Pissarro," Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005, pp. 142, 251, no. 47, ill. (Published as "The Highway: La Côte de Valhermeil")
Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, "Pissarro: Catalogue Critique des Peintures, vol. II," Paris/Milan: Wildenstein Institute/Skira, 2005, p. 418, no. 623, ill. (Published as "La Côte du Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise")
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 21, 47, 77, pl. 23, ill.
Fillion, Susan. Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. Boston: David R. Godine, 2011, page 14.
Inscribed: Recto: Signed and dated lower left, "C. Pissarro. 80"
