The collection of Baron Denys Cochin

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  Pissarro

  Girl Tending Cattle on the Banks of the Epte, Bazincourt

  1888-1901 · Canvas, 60 × 73 cm

  Private collection

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  A cowgirl crouching under the willows, painted in 1888 in the pointillist manner: Durand-Ruel bought it from Pissarro on 10 November 1888 and sold it to Baron Denys Cochin on 24 February 1892, his first known Pissarro^{[1, 2]}. Returned to the painter in 1901, who repainted and redated it, it is, the catalogue says, the only known case of a Pissarro retouched after leaving the studio^[1].

  In his hands: Came on 24 February 1892, from Durand-Ruel · Left in 1901, to Pissarro

  Today: In a private collection in the United Kingdom, after Carl Sachs in Breslau around 1911^[1].

  Reproduction from Pissarro and Durand-Ruel Snollaerts’s catalogue, 2005, no. 861, on Wikimedia Commons, “Pissarro - Pissarro and Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, 861.png”, public domain

  Sources (2)

  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. 564, n° 861.

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

     « Vachère au bord de l’Epte, Bazincourt. 1888–1901. Oil on canvas, 60 × 73 cm. Signed and dated lower right: C. Pissarro. 88, overpainted with C. Pissarro. 1901. Provenance: Bought by Durand-Ruel from the artist on 10 Nov. 1888 – Sold by Durand-Ruel to Baron Denys Cochin on 24 Feb. 1892 – Returned to the artist to be reworked in 1901 – Carl Sachs, Breslau (Germany), c. 1911 – Private collection, U.K. […] The present composition is the only known instance of a painting being substantially touched up after leaving the artist’s possession. »

  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. »