La Recolte Des Foins, Eragny

Title

La Recolte Des Foins, Eragny

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"La Récolte des Foins, Éragny"

Artist: Camille Pissarro (Danish-French, 1830-1903)

Title: La Récolte des Foins, Éragny

Object Type: Painting

Genre: Genre art

Date: 1887

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 50 cm (19.6 in); Width: 66 cm (25.9 in)

Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality". Paul Cézanne said "he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord", and he was also one of Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as "revolutionary", through his artistic portrayals of the "common man", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without "artifice or grandeur".

Dit schilderij is een prachtig voorbeeld van het pointillisme, de stippeltechniek waar Camille Pissarro en collega-kunstenaars mee experimenteerden. De verf is aangebracht in stipjes en streepjes, in contrasterende kleuren. Dat was niet makkelijk: Pissarro schreef destijds aan zijn zoon dat hij dagenlang worstelde om hier precies dát weer te geven wat hij in zijn hoofd had.

Van Gogh had grote bewondering voor Pissarro’s kleureffecten en nam er een voorbeeld aan. Het is goed mogelijk dat hij dit schilderij kende. Zijn broer Theo, die kunsthandelaar was, verkocht het in 1887.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture, Van Gogh Museum

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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