Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps

Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps is a painting of Paris' Boulevard Montmartre by Camille Pissarro.

On 5 February 2014 it was auctioned at Sotheby's, London, for £19,682,500, double its pre-sale estimate.

Provenance

 * Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on 2 June 1898)
 * Mr Burke, London (acquired from the above on 11 January 1899)
 * Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
 * Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 14 August 1901)
 * Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above on 13 October 1902)
 * Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden (acquired circa 1914)
 * Max Silberberg, Breslau (acquired by 1923)
 * Sale: Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23 March 1935, lot 27 (forced sale by Max Silberberg)
 * Alfred & Marie Erlich, New York
 * Nathan J. & Sara N. Cohn, Mount Vernon (acquired from the above)
 * Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 9 November 1959)
 * John & Frances L. Loeb, New York (acquired from the above on 4 January 1960)
 * The American Friends of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a bequest from the above in 1997)
 * The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a gift from the above in 1997)
 * Restituted to Gerta Silberberg on 1 February 2000, and placed on loan with The Israel Museum until 2013

Exhibition history

 * Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Œuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro, 1898, no. 24
 * St. Petersburg, Société Impériale d’Encouragement des Arts, Expositions française des Beaux-Arts et des Arts décoratifs, 1899, no. 274
 * Rheims, Société des Amis des Arts, 16e Exposition générale, 1901, no. 563
 * Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Ausstellung von Gemälden französischer Künstler, 1902, no. 26
 * Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1914, no. 79
 * New York, Wildenstein & Co., C. Pissarro, 1965, no. 66
 * New York, Wildenstein & Co., ‘One Hundred Years of Impressionism’: A Tribute to Durand-Ruel, 1970, no. 88, illustrated in the catalogue
 * Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art & London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings, 1992–93, no. 51, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
 * Rovereto, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, 2008–09, no. 6