CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903) THE PLOUGHWOMEN, CIRCA 1880-1890 Watercolour and charcoal on paper Signed lower right Watercolor and charcoal on paper; signed lower right 15 X 18 CM - 5 7/8 X 7 1/8 IN. Mr Joachim Pissarro has confirmed the authenticity of this work. A letter of inclusion in the catalogue raisonné of Camille Pissarro's drawings currently in preparation will be given to the buyer. RELATED WORKS Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Feneuse à Éragny, 1889. Oil on canvas (Catalogue raisonné no. 866). Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Haymaking at Éragny, 1891. Oil on canvas (Catalogue raisonné no. 919). Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Haymaking, around 1901. Gouache on paper (Catalogue raisonné no. 1494). "Pissarro is neither a poet nor a philosopher, but simply a naturalist, a maker of skies and terrains. Dream if you will, that is what he saw. The originality here is profoundly human... It lies in the very temperament of the painter. Never have paintings seemed to me of more masterly magnitude. You can hear the deep voices of the earth, you can sense the powerful life of the trees... Such reality is higher than dreams... You only have to look at such works to understand that there is a man in them, an upright and vigorous personality, incapable of lies, making art a pure and eternal truth... Camille Pissarro is one of the three or four painters of his time... And this valley, this hillside are of heroic simplicity...". Émile Zola on Camille Pissarro, Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, Son art - son œuvre, Paul Rosenberg, Paris: 1939, vol. 1, p. 22.