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DEACESSIONED June 23, 2011
View from the Artist's Window, Eragny
Camille Pissarro (French (born in the Danish West Indies), 1830–1903)
1885
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54.5 x 65.1 cm (21 7/16 x 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number25.115
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower right: C. Pissarro 85.
ProvenancePossibly in the Collection of Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris. 1892, with Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York; 1914, sold by Durand-Ruel to Robert J. Edwards (d. 1924), Boston; 1925, bequest of Robert J. Edwards to the MFA [see note 1]; June 23, 2011, deaccessioned by the MFA for sale through Sotheby's, New York.
NOTES:
[1] MFA accession date: April 2, 1925 (accession no. 25.115).
Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.
NOTES:
[1] MFA accession date: April 2, 1925 (accession no. 25.115).
Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.