The collection of Baron Denys Cochin

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  Pissarro

  View of Bazincourt, Sunset

  1892 · Canvas, 38 × 55 cm

  Museum Barberini, Potsdam ↗

  See in the collection

  The sun sinking behind the steeple of Bazincourt, signed and dated 1892: the catalogue opens its provenance with Baron Denys Cochin and continues with Durand-Ruel, who bought it from him on 11 March 1902 and kept it until 1948^{[1, 2]}.

  In his hands: Left on 11 March 1902, to Durand-Ruel

  Today: At the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Hasso Plattner Collection, MB-Pis-04, whose provenance opens with “Baron Denys Cochin”: Durand-Ruel from 1902 to 1948, the sales at Lucerne in 1949 and at the Galerie Charpentier in 1955, a Swiss collection, Christie’s in London on 23 June 2004, the trade in March 2009^[3].

  Photograph from the Museum Barberini on Wikimedia Commons, “MB-Pis-04 Pissarro Blick-auf-Bazincourt-Sonnenuntergang 1.jpg”, public domain

  Sources (3)

  1. 1.Joachim Pissarro et Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, catalogue critique des peintures, Milan, Skira, et Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 2005, 3 vol. : index et notices 598, 861, 891, 960, 980, lus dans la bibliothèque numérique du Wildenstein Plattner Institute, vol. III, p. 628, n° 960.

     Reference work · partly read (restricted access), 6 October 2026 · view ↗

     « Vue de Bazincourt, coucher de soleil. 1892. Oil on canvas, 38 × 55 cm. Signed and dated lower left: C. Pissarro. 1892. Provenance: Baron Denys Cochin – Bought by Durand-Ruel from Baron Denys Cochin on 11 Mar. 1902 – Sold by Durand-Ruel on 28 Jan. 1948 – Sale, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 12 Nov. 1949, no. 3143 – Sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 5 Dec. 1955, no. 59, ill. »

  2. 2.Joachim Pissarro et Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, catalogue critique des peintures, Milan, Skira, et Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 2005, 3 vol. : index et notices 598, 861, 891, 960, 980, lus dans la bibliothèque numérique du Wildenstein Plattner Institute, vol. III, index des collectionneurs.

     Reference work · partly read (restricted access), 6 October 2026 · view ↗

     « Cochin (Baron Denys): 598, 861, 891, 960, 980. »

  3. 3.Museum Barberini, Potsdam, collection Hasso Plattner en ligne, Camille Pissarro, View of Bazincourt, Sunset, 1892, MB-Pis-04 : notice, provenance et bibliographie, notice et provenance.

     Reference work · read in full, 7 October 2026 · view ↗

     « View of Bazincourt, Sunset, 1892. Oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm. Signed and dated lower left: C. Pissarro. 1892. Inv.-no. MB-Pis-04. Provenance: n.d., Baron Denys Cochin — March 11, 1902, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, acquired from the above, sold on January 28, 1948 — November 12, 1949, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, lot 3143 — December 5, 1955, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 59 — Private collection, acquired at the above sale — n.d., Private collection, Switzerland, inherited from the above — June 23, 2004, Christie’s, London, lot 105, consigned by the above — March 2009, Art trade. Literature: Pissarro and Durand-Ruel Snollaerts 2005, vol. 3, no. 960. »