Peasants Resting
Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)
Date: 1881
Dimensions:
Painting: 32 × 25 3/4 in. (81.3 × 65.4 cm)
Framed: 39 × 32 3/4 × 3 in. (99.1 × 83.2 × 7.6 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1935.6
Label Text:Two women and a child take a moment to rest, perhaps on their way home after a day of labor. Their slumping poses communicate fatigue, but a restful mood is conveyed by Camille Pissarro’s short dabs of paint in complementary colors (orange and blue, ochre and violet). View this painting from a distance and the brushstrokes coalesce into dappled light shining through the trees above. Pissarro stressed the importance of this aspect of the painting when he exhibited it under the title Figure Study in the Open Air, Sunlight Effect at the 1882 group exhibition of the Impressionists.
An innovator in his techniques, Pissarro, along with his friend Monet, became a central figure in the group of Impressionist artists. He was influential to many post-Impressionist artists, particularly Cézanne and Gauguin, to whom he was a mentor.
An innovator in his techniques, Pissarro, along with his friend Monet, became a central figure in the group of Impressionist artists. He was influential to many post-Impressionist artists, particularly Cézanne and Gauguin, to whom he was a mentor.
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