Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pontoise (Paysage sous bois, a L'Hermitage, Pontoise)

1879

Camille Pissarro

Associated Names
Camille Pissarro

Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903

The image shows a cluster of trees creating a lattice. In the background, there are structures, possibly cottages or farmhouses, and hills in the distance. The brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, creating a soft, misty quality. The scene is in muted tones of grayscale, with varying shades from dark shadows to light highlights. In the foreground, there is rough-textured ground with foliage and a figure with their back turned. The background merges with the trees.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint, soft-ground, and drypoint on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22 x 27 cm (8 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 27 x 35.8 cm (10 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.5.486

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 16, State v/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 107, repro.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 32.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at right in graphite: C. Pissarro; verso: none

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65071098

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