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Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Camille Pissarro that he executed in 1897.

By 1923 it was in the collection of the German industrialist and Holocaust victim Max Silberberg (de). Silberberg was obliged by the ruling Nazi regime to dispose of the work in a forced sale in 1937. It was restituted to his family in 2000 and placed on loan with the Israel Museum until 2013. On 12 January 2013 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 2nd June 1898)
 * Mr Burke, London (acquired from the above on 11th January 1899)
 * Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
 * Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 14th August 1901)
 * Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above on 13th October 1902)
 * Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden (acquired circa 1914)
 * Max Silberberg, Breslau (acquired by 1923)
 * Sale: Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23rd 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 9th November 1959)
 * John & Frances L. Loeb, New York (acquired from the above on 4th 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 1st 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