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Camille
Pissarro (1830 - 1903)
MARCHE
A PONTOISE. ca. 1895. Delteil 147 i (of iii). Lithograph,
306 x 228 mm (12 1/8 x 9”) plus wide margins. Numbered
“1er etat no. 10” and titled by the artist. Printed
by Tailliardat, Paris. A fine impression in very good condition.
One of only 13 impressions in the first state.
Pissarro made eight prints of markets, beginning in 1878 with
an etching of women selling chestnuts. The placement of the
figures in the foreground, removed at a distance from the
activity that takes place behind them, is very characteristic
of Japanese woodblock prints. Pissarro frequently used this
device to separate points of emphasis. He also used lithographic
crayon (in this case on zinc) in various ways to obtain different
tonal values and scratched paler lines into the dark crayon.
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