Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903)
View from my Window, Éragny-sur-Epte
A794; oil on canvas; 65 x 81 cm
Signed and dated: C. Pissarro 1888
Presented by Mrs Lucien Pissarro, 1950; WA1950.185
Pissarro and Venturi 1939, no. 721; Thorold and Erickson 1993, no. 13
The painting shows a view from the Pissarro’s house at Éragny, looking towards the village of Bazincourt. The tall building on the left was converted into Pissarro’s studio when he bought the property in 1892. The composition, which the artist referred to as ‘modern primitive’, was begun in 1886 but not completed until two years later, in the painstaking Pointillist technique Pissarro used for only a few years.
Information derived from the The Ashmolean Museum Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.
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