Alfred Pope: An Evolution of Ingenuity
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
18. La ruelle des Poulies à Pontoise
next
La ruelle des Poulies à Pontoise (Ruelle des Poulies at Pontoise), c. 1872
Oil on canvas, 20 ½ × 32 in. (52.1 × 81.3 cm). Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
La ruelle des Poulies à Pontoise is the only work by Pissarro that Alfred acquired. He purchased the picturesque scene of the Parisian suburb from Boussod, Valadon et Cie on November 10, 1893. Five years later, in 1898, he sold it back to Boussod, Valadon et Cie, which then sold the work to a private collector in Chicago. Eventually, art collector and philanthropist Hugo N. Dixon of Memphis, Tennessee, acquired the work in 1953. Dixon then bequeathed the painting to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and it entered their collection on February 24, 1975.
next