The Complete Works of Philippe Smit
by Andreas Narzt and Florence Castellani
PS 464 (P 165)
Eshowe Pitcairn
Alternate titles: Eshowe; Mlle Eshowe Pitcairn
1939
Pastel on cardboard
46 5/16 x 34 1/2 in. (117.5 x 87.5 cm) (sight size)
Signed and dated upper left: Philippe Smit/ 1939
On the back: fragment of the exhibition label Philadelphia on the cardboard upper center and a handwritten label: Theod. P/ 165 on the frame lower left.
Inventories
Inv. Pitcairn, n.d. [c.1957], n.p., LNC archives: no. P 165 F: Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, Portrait of Eshowe (Loan to Eshowe), Smit, Pastel, 46 x 34 1/2 [in.].
Exhibitions
Galerie Pierre Maurs, Paris, Peinture et Pastels de Philippe Smit, February 04, 1948, no. 67, as Eshowe Pitcairn, 1939 (CP).
The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, Philippe Smit, An Exhibition of Works by a Twentieth Century Dutch Master, December 01–29, 1957, no. 35, ill. color, as Eshowe Pitcairn, Pastel - Circa 1939, 50 x 39 [in.]
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Collection of the Rev. and Mrs. Theodore Pitcairn, June 17–September 15, 1960, no. 36, Pastel, 1936, Eshowe Pitcairn, 11-1960-36 (title and n° on receipt of return).
Literature & Primary Sources
Niehaus, Kasper. Philippe Smit, unkown genius. Revised and edited by Marjorie Bell. Typescript, 1955, p. 26-27, as Mlle Eshowe Pitcairn.
Smith, Wayne C. "Museum Has Smit Exhibit." The Springfield Union, 02-12-1957, p. 20, as Eshowe.
Notes
Born in 1930 at Chateau de la Motte (see additonal image [PS 264]), Eshowe Pitcairn-Pennink, second daughter of Theodore and Marijke Pitcairn, in her brown dress which Smit had chosen for this portrait, remembers the posing session in the studio at Thoury-Ferrottes. She asked the artist if she could keep the flowers that she had just picked.
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Citation: Narzt, Andreas and Castellani, Florence. "Eshowe Pitcairn, 1939 (PS 464)." In The Complete Works of Philippe Smit. www.philippesmit.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=464 (accessed on May 10, 2025).