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Source Description
This drawing was created during an early trip of many that Camille Pissarro took to Rouen, a port city in northern France. It inspired the artist to create a virtually identical etching around the same time, and may have served as a preparatory sketch for that work. A founding member of the Impressionist group, Pissarro spent much of his career painting the rural and landscape outdoors and paid particular attention to the effects of weather and natural light. Here, the gray skies over the town echo the muted tone of the stone buildings that occupy a quiet side street.
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Document identity
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143983
label
Rue Damiette, Rouen
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drawing
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Source metadata
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143983
contentType
drawing
title
Rue Damiette, Rouen
description
This drawing was created during an early trip of many that Camille Pissarro took to Rouen, a port city in northern France. It inspired the artist to create a virtually identical etching around the same time, and may have served as a preparatory sketch for that work. A founding member of the Impressionist group, Pissarro spent much of his career painting the rural and landscape outdoors and paid particular attention to the effects of weather and natural light. Here, the gray skies over the town echo the muted tone of the stone buildings that occupy a quiet side street.
date
c. 1884
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80044627
creators
1836
genreSpecific
Drawing
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1968.357
Source extras
tec
black chalk and watercolor on wove paper
tombstone
Rue Damiette, Rouen, c. 1884. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Black chalk and watercolor on wove paper; sheet: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1968.357
supportMaterials
description
Whatman wove paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, across bottom, in black crayon: C Pissarro Rue Daumiette à Rouen; watermark: JWhatman / Turkeyhill
didYouKnow
Because of its picturesque qualities, Rouen's rue Damiette has served as a subject for numerous artists.
citations
citation
<em> Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, 1927.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 50
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 1 (1970): 2-50.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 49; Reproduced: p. 49, no. 180
citation
De Leiris, Alain, and Carol Hynning Smith. <em>From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century</em>. Exh. Cat. College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1977.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 183; Reproduced: p. 77, no. 132
creditline
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
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2026-05-29 07:23:45.499000
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143983
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black chalk and watercolor on wove paper
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Jewish artists
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1
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0
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photo
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