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Camille
Pissarro (1830 - 1903)
MARCHÉ À PONTOISE (MARKET AT POINTOISE). 1895. Delteil 147 iii. Lithograph on zinc,
307 x 228 mm (12 1/16 x 9”) plus full margins, on China paper mounted on thick wove. A very fine proof outside the edition of 26 impressions in the third state, not signed or numbered. In this state, Delteil lists 20 numbered impressions printed by the artist and 6 posthumous impressions, also numbered.
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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