European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945

Woman Washing Her Feet in a Brook
Artist Pissarro, Camille
     nationality French
     birth-death 1831-1903
Creation date 1894
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 13 1/8 x 16 1/4 in.
Location Norb & Ruth Schaefer, Sr. and Norb & Carolyn Schaefer Jr. Gallery
Credit line Gift of George E. Hume
Accession number 48.17
Gallery Label

Like many Impressionists, Pissarro experienced a deep artistic crisis in the mid-1880s. It led him to adopt the Neo-Impressionist color theory and brushwork of Georges Seurat, but within five years Pissarro abandoned the dotted technique as too laborious.

This canvas, one of three devoted to the subject of a woman by a stream, was executed after Pissarro returned to Impressionism. However, forced indoors by ill health, he actually painted this image in the studio, using a model and preparatory drawings.


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