Dimensions: 18 × 21 1/2 in. (45.72 × 54.61 cm) (sight)28 1/4 × 31 7/8 in. (71.76 × 80.96 cm) (outer frame)
Copyright: Public Domain
Camille Pissarro painted this oil on canvas, titled "Orchards at Louveciennes," during an era of significant social change in France. Pissarro was deeply involved in the Impressionist movement, which sought to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life, often focusing on the French landscape. Pissarro, of Jewish-Portuguese descent, understood what it meant to be an outsider. This identity informed his artistic perspective, drawing him to subjects that spoke to the lives of ordinary people and the beauty of the natural world around him. He once said, "Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret." Here, you can see how the artist captures the tranquility of the orchards. Pissarro does not maintain traditional, idealized representations of landscapes but develops an alternative narrative about the value of nature in our everyday lives. The painting invites us to reflect on the relationship between the individual and the environment, revealing the emotional and personal dimensions of the landscape.
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Conservation was generously funded by Cynthia S. Larsen Among the many highlights of Bruce Dayton's generous 2016 bequest is this painting by Camille Pissarro, the French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter. In 1872, the date of this painting, Pissarro established a collective society of fifteen younger artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the Impressionist group together. Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886, and he further acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists, but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
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