Artist: Camille Pissarro
Date: 1883
Size: 65 x 54 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Camille Pissarro like many of the Impressionists spent much of his working life based in an area northwest of Paris, mostly in or around the old town of Pontoise, and within easy reach of the capital. The landscape of the surrounding villages and small towns offered the artist numerous motifs, though not of the dramatic kind — low, bare hills, stone buildings with red or blue roofs, and screens of slender trees seem to characterize the areas he chose to paint.In 1882 Pissarro and his family moved from Pontoise to a nearby village called Osny. Situated on the banks of the river Viosne, a tributary of the Oise, Osny was in a region already well known to the artist. It was the intimate aspects of the rural landscape that he chose as his Osny subjects, painting intimate views of the village, the inlet in the river, the local farm, or the road leading to the village.The 1870s had been a period of struggle and experiment for Pissarro. He had made a number of dramatic changes of style during the decade, driven in particular by the constant battle between representing
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