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Artist
Creation date
about 1865
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
11 3/16 x 17 3/8 in.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Joseph E. Cain
Accession number
75.981
Collection
Currently On View In
Norb and Ruth Schaefer, Sr. & Norb and Carolyn Schaefer Gallery - H211
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.
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.