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Two Peasant Women in a Meadow (Le Pré)

(French (born in the Danish West Indies), 1830–1903)
(American (Lawrence, MA))
1893
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions93 x 73.2 cm (36 5/8 x 28 13/16 in.)
Credit LineDeposited by the Trustees of the White Fund, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Accession numberL-R 1333.12
On View
On view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: C. Pissarro. 1893
ProvenanceMarch 17, 1893, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock no. 1828); March 22, 1899, sold by Durand-Ruel to Senator Edward O. Wolcott (b. 1848 - d. 1905), Colorado Springs and Washington DC [see note 1]; to his brother the Reverend William E. Wolcott (b. 1887 - d. 1911), Lawrence, MA; 1911, bequeathed by Wolcott to the White Fund of Lawrence, MA; November 13, 1912, placed on loan by the Trustees of the White Fund to the MFA.

NOTE:
[1] Dates of sales are noted in de Buffévent & Champié, "Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings" (2005), cat. no. 982.
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