The Lock at Pontoise
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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The Lock at Pontoise

1872
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) visual detail
ArtistCamille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
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Provenance

Public
Until 1900

Charles Guasco

1900

(Guasco sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 11, 1900 (no. 60), sold to Louis Schoengrün, Paris

1900-1901

Louis Schoengrün, Paris

1901

(Schoengrün sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Feb. 7, 1901 (no. 27), sold to Max Behrendt)

1901-at least 1939

Max Behrendt, Paris

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Possibly Gouin collection, Paris

Until 1951

Mrs. Carmona, sold to Wildenstein

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Charles Guasco (Guasco sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 11, 1900 (no. 60), sold to Louis Schoengrün, Paris Louis Schoengrün, Paris (Schoengrün sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Feb. 7, 1901 (no. 27), sold to Max Behrendt) Max Behrendt, Paris Possibly Gouin collection, Paris Mrs. Carmona, sold to Wildenstein (Wildenstein & Co., New York, sold to Eleanor Allen Cunningham) Eleanor Allen (Lamont) Cunningham [1910-1961], Hartford, CT, by descent to her son, Charles Cunningham, Jr Charles Cunningham, Jr. (Artemis Fine Arts/David Carritt, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). Masters of Impressionism. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico (November 17, 1998-February 28, 1999). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Paul Durand-Ruel and Impressionism. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France (October 15, 2014-February 8, 2015); National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (March 4-May 31, 2015); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (June 18-September 13, 2015). Camille Pissarro - The First Among the Impressionists. Musée Marmottan Monet, 75016, Paris, France (organizer) (February 23-July 16, 2017). Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism. Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany (organizer) (June 14-September 28, 2025); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (October 26, 2025-February 8, 2026). Tableaux par Camille Pissarro. Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (1928). Exposition d'oeuvres importantes de grands maîtres du dix-neuvième siècle. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, France (1931). Connecticut Collects-An Exhibition of Privately Owned Works of Art in Connecticut. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,CT (1957). Pissarro. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Grand Palais, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1980-81).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Pissarro was instrumental in developing the radically new Impressionist technique of painting quickly outdoors to capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. The rushing water and overcast sky in this view of a river lock near the artist’s home at Pontoise, a rural commune about 17 miles northwest of Paris, are rendered with rapid, broken brushstrokes of pure color. Painting directly on canvas without preliminary drawing, Pissarro may have executed this work in a single session. The shimmering surface of broken color conveys the sensation of natural, outdoor light.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 12 structured provenance events · 7 structured exhibitions.

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