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View From the Artist’s Studio at Éragny
Camille Pissarro1894
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Memphis, United States
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- Title: View From the Artist’s Studio at Éragny
- Creator: Camille Pissarro
- Creator Lifespan: 1830 - 1903
- Creator Nationality: French
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Paris, France
- Creator Birth Place: Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands
- Date: 1894
- Location: Éragny, France
- Physical Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches
- Description: By the 1890s, Camille Pissarro was one of the elder statesmen of French Impressionism. A decade older than Claude Monet, his fellow landscapist in the Impressionist movement, Pissarro began to suffer from eye trouble in the 1890s that would keep him indoors more than he wished. Despite this hindrance, Pissarro painted beautiful rural landscapes from an upstairs window at his home in Éragny, the village outside Paris where he had lived since 1884. In 1892, Pissarro began a series of paintings of the small orchard next to his house, the river Eure a short walk beyond, and the village of Bazincourt tucked in the hills across the river. Painted at different times of the day and over the course of more than two years, Pissarro’s Éragny subjects explored his little valley in different light conditions that affected its character and mood. Pissarro completed View from the Artist’s Studio at Éragny in 1894. Painted in the clear unifying light of an autumn morning, an old gnarled apple tree in the foreground takes pride of place. The same tree had appeared in no less than a dozen paintings in the series, but in no other composition does this aging patriarch of the orchard command such prominence.
- Provenance: Gift of Montgomery H. W. Ritchie
- Type: Oil paintings
- Rights: Dixon Gallery and Gardens. For Terms and Conditions for use of this image please contact the Registrar at 901-761-5250.
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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