Lot 162: Camille Pissarro (Saint-Thomas 1830-1903 Paris)

Women cooking, washing and reading to children, and studies of two women, seen from behind, carrying vases, Caracas (recto); Studies of women in profile to the left and one seen from behind (verso)
inscribed and dated 'Caracas la S. tora 1854..-' and 'brun foncé so.../...'
black chalk, pen and brown ink
8 x 10 1/2 in. (203 x 266 mm.)

The left part of the drawing is a study for a more finished washed drawing signed, dated 1854 and inscribed 'Caracas', in the Banco Central de Venezuela in Caracas (Boulton, p. 40).