Magnet - Camille Pissarro, Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Èragny-sur-Epte

Dimensions: 9cm x 6.5cm
Made in Melbourne and exclusive to NGV design store

In April 1884, Pissarro moved to Éragny-sur-Epte, where he would mostly reside until his death in 1903. In this painting, a peasant woman trudges through the snow, her back to the viewer, her arms taut with the weight of two buckets. Pissarro combines here his sympathy for rural labourers with his interest in winter landscapes. Committed across several decades to humble rural scenes and flickering brushstrokes, Pissarro varied his touch from the broader Impressionist stroke to a more methodical Neo-Impressionist dot and back again. From the late 1880s, Pissarro suffered from an eye condition that made it difficult to work out-of-doors for long periods. He probably painted this scene from the window of his studio, a converted barn in Éragny.

Camille Pissarro
French (born in the Danish West Indies)
Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Èragny-sur-Epte (detail), 1895
Oil on canvas
82.3 x 61.6 cm
The John Pickering Lyman Collection —Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
19.1321
Reproduced with permission.
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