Landscape

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Artist

Pissarro, Camille

nationality

French

birth-death

1831-1903

Creation date

about 1865

Collection

European

Materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

11 3/16 x 17 3/8 in.

Currently On View

Location

Norb & Ruth Schaefer, Sr. and Norb & Carolyn Schaefer Jr. Gallery

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Joseph E. Cain

Accession number

75.981

Provenance
Gallery Label

Provenance

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Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.

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Throughout his career Pissarro maintained that his goal was to record nature as he saw it. This early landscape is typical of his work of the 1860s and shows the influence of Charles Daubigny and the Barbizon School, artists dedicated to the faithful depiction of nature.

The stable composition based on horizontals and the lively brushwork of the foliage show reverence for Corot, whom Pissarro cited as his teacher. This canvas's rather somber tones, typical of Barbizon painting, were replaced by a brighter palette in the 1870s when Pissarro embraced Impressionism.

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