The Pond at Montfoucault

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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The Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro painted this landscape whilst staying at a friend’s farm in Normandy in the autumn of 1875. The artist called the remote smallholding the ‘true countryside’ and he included working figures in many of his views. Here a woman tends a herd of cows with geese beyond. Pissarro creates a fine autumnal effect using warm tones heavily worked with a palette knife and brush. The existence of two preparatory studies, however, suggests that despite the apparently spontaneous handling of paint it was produced in the studio.
Title

The Pond at Montfoucault

Date

1875

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73.6 x W 92.7 cm

Accession number

55.16

Acquisition method

purchased, 1955

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed and dated: C.Pissarro 1875

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