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Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise

1879

Camille Pissarro

(French, 1830–1903)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
oil on fabric
Measurements
Framed: 166 x 204 x 16.5 cm (65 3/8 x 80 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 125 x 163 cm (49 3/16 x 64 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.356
Public Domain
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Location
222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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A goat seen from the back standing next to the figure in blue laying in the grass invites the viewer to step inside this serene and beautiful setting.

Description

Born to a French-Jewish family on St. Thomas island in the Caribbean, Pissarro painted this monumental landscape when he was desperately poor and struggling to sell his paintings. It depicts a man slumbering in the sun-dappled backwoods of the Hermitage, a rural village near Pontoise, where the artist had been living since 1872. Restricting his palette 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.
Horizontally oriented oil painting with layered dollops of paint depicting a forest with trees, trunks extending vertically up the canvas, branches completely covered by light- and dark-green leaves. Center, through the leaves, stands a rectangular, white house with a red roof. Among the greenery in the lower center, sparse, blue and black strokes suggest a person laying in the grass, a deer-like creature with white and brown fur standing to the left, facing the house.

Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise

1879

Camille Pissarro

(French, 1830–1903)
France, 19th century

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