Chestnut Vendor, St. Martin's Day Fair (Pontoise)

Pissarro was essentially a landscape artist, and the majority of his prints were landscapes with peasant figures. These images never showed workers exhausted by their labors, for Pissarro was primarily interested in conveying the pleasantness of the countryside and simple, rural life. In this scene of the chestnut vendor, the placing of figures in the foreground reflects the flat design and two-dimensional concept of space characteristic of the Japanese art that was influencing many French artists at the time.

A vertically oriented print in black-inked fine lines on tan paper depicts three women with light skin tones. On the left, a seated woman wearing a patterned headscarf gazes right. Centrally, a woman leans over a large barrel, while a third stands with her back turned on the right. A fairground with a horse-drawn cart and small figures fills the background. Handwritten text and the signature "C. Pissarro" appear below.

Chestnut Vendor, St. Martin's Day Fair (Pontoise)

1878

Camille Pissarro

(French, 1830–1903)

France, 19th century

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