The House of the Deaf Woman and the Belfry at Eragny (La Maison de la Sourde et Le Clocher d'Eragny)

Bought from the artist by (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France) on 05 October 1886; (Duval-Fleury, Paris) on 25 March 1918.{1} Possibly in the collection of Wilhelm Hansen [1868-1936], Ordrupgaard, near Copenhagen, Denmark.{2} Private collection, Paris and Belgium, from about 1920 until 2002; sold through (Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002. {1} Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, volume 3, Milan: Wildenstein Institute, 2005, p. 543. This information is based on material in the Durand-Ruel archives in Paris, and was also supplied to the IMA in correspondence with Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts between April and September 2002. {2} Hansen was a prominent collector of French painting and a business partner of Emile Duval-Fleury. On their connections see Haavard Rostrup, “Wilhelm Hansen et sa collection de tableaux impressionnistes du Museé d’Ordrupgaard,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no.1358, volume 99 (March 1982), pp.101-108, especially p. 104, and the essay by Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, "Ordrupgaard: The collection of Wilhelm Hansen and his wife Henny Hansen” in the exhibition catalogue The Age of Impressionism: European Paintings from Ordrupgaard Copenhagen, The Walters Art Museum, 2002, pp. 8-23, especially p. 13. The catalogue of Hansen’s collection by Karl Madsen, Katalog over Wilhelm Hansen’s Samling: Fransk Malerkunst, Ordrupgaard 1918, lists 8 paintings by Pissarro, but none matching this title, description or date.