Charles Stewart Carstairs and Camille Pissarro's 'The Côte des Bœufs at L'Hermitage': model of magnanimity or marketing strategy?

In December 1926 the American art dealer Charles Stewart Carstairs (1865-1928) purchased the Impressionist landscape "The cote des boeufs at l'Hermitage," painted by Camille Pissarro in 1877. He acquired the work from M. Koedler & Col, where he was employed, for $3,750, along with...

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Published in:Burlington magazine 2016-08, Vol.158 (1361), p.628-637
Main Author: IACONO, MARGARET
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:In December 1926 the American art dealer Charles Stewart Carstairs (1865-1928) purchased the Impressionist landscape "The cote des boeufs at l'Hermitage," painted by Camille Pissarro in 1877. He acquired the work from M. Koedler & Col, where he was employed, for $3,750, along with several other paintings bound for his personal collection. But while the other pictures appear to have remained in his collection, Pissarro's painting did not. That same year Carstairs presented the canvas to what was then called the National Gallery Millbank (but already commonly called the Tate Gallery), via the National Art-Collections Fund. In 1950 "Cote des boeufs" was transferred to the National Gallery in London, where it remains today. [Publication Abstract]
ISSN:0007-6287