Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.356
Summary
Pissarro painted this monumental landscape when he was desperately poor and struggling to sell his paintings. It depicts a man slumbering in the sundappled backwoods of the Hermitage, a rural village near Pontoise, where the artist had been living since 1872. Restricting his pallette to pure hues, Pissarro applied brushstrokes in systematic diagonal patterns, producing an effect that he likened to knitting. This canvas was included in the fourth Impressionist exhibition of 1879.
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Date
1879
Source
clevelandart.org
Copyright info
public domain