Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise

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Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise

Camille PissarroLinkedCulture matchlcp-26e598d91b53

Date
1879
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
128392

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. A goat seen from the back standing next to the figure in blue laying in the grass invites the viewer to step inside this serene and beautiful setting.

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Credit line
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Provenance
1903-1913: Family of the artist, sold to Bernheim-Jeune | 1913-1935: (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to L’Art Moderne) | 1935: (L'Art Moderne, Lucerne) | 1935: (L'Art Moderne sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 20, 1935 (no. 59), sold to André Schoeller) | 1935-: (André Schoeller [1898-1991], Paris) | ?: (Charles Comiot, Paris | Until 1951: (César de Hauke and Hector Brame, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1951-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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