Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise (Q21785872)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
landscape art (Q191163)
artist:
Camille Pissarro (Q134741)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
owned by:
Wildenstein & Company (Q10288082)
location of final assembly:
France (Q142)
exhibition history:
4th impressionist exhibition (Q16389549)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Salons ID:
58404
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.356
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
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.
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