L’île Lacroix à Rouen (Lacroix Island at Rouen)

Artist Camille Pissarro (French, 1831–1903)

Date1883

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 54.3 × 65.6 cm (21 3/8 × 25 13/16 in.)
framed: 73.7 × 84.5 × 9.5 cm (29 × 33 1/4 × 3 3/4 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift from the Estate of Robert W. Stoddard

Terms

canvas

Object number1998.213

Label TextSituated on the Seine River in northern France, Rouen was an industrial shipping center where freight that arrived from the Atlantic Ocean was loaded onto smaller barges or trains to continue on to Paris. Pissarro made several trips to Rouen, where, like Sisley, he portrayed themes of labor and was captivated by the atmospheric effects of industrial smokestacks over the water. Interestingly, some of Pissarro’s trips there were partly motivated by a desire to network and sell canvases. Monet’s older brother Léon, a chemist and industrialist, lived in Rouen and actively influenced collectors there to buy impressionist art, particularly that by landscapists Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro. In this way, the otherwise unassuming industrial city became a surprising frontier of modern art collecting during the late 19th century.ProvenanceDurand-Ruel, Paris; Sam Salz, New York, NY; M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY; Mrs. J. B. Ryan, New York, NY, 1948; Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, 1979; purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Stoddard, 1979; given to the Worcester Art Museum by the Helen E. Stoddard Estate, 1998.

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