The Path, 1889

  • Camille Pissarro, French, 1830-1903

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 28 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (72.4 × 59.7 cm)
  • 36 1/4 inches × 31 1/4 inches × 4 inches (92.1 × 79.4 × 10.2 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.34

On View

  • Modern, Level 2, Central

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed and dated, lower right: C. Pissarro 1889

Léon Payen (France)

June 29-30, 1916, sold by (Georges Petit, Paris, France) lot 95

sold by (J. Allard & Co., Paris, France) stock #6699

1920-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Camille Pissarro, The Path, 1889, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.34.