Paysage à l'Hermitage (Pontoise); (Landscape at l'Hermitage, Pontoise)

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NamePaysage à l'Hermitage (Pontoise); (Landscape at l'Hermitage, Pontoise)

ProductionCamille Pissarro; artist; 1880

Classificationprints, drypoints, works on paper

Materialspaper, ink

Materials Summarydrypoint

Techniquesdrypoint

DimensionsImage: 125mm (width), 108mm (height)

Registration Number1966-0005-6

Credit lineGift of Sir John Ilott, 1966

Overview

This atmospheric, freely executed drypoint by the famous French Impressionist painter and printmaker Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), depicts a landscape with trees and buildings in the foreground and a wooded hillside in background. The location is Pontoise, approximately 40 kilometres north-west of Paris, and the cluster of houses is known as L'Heritage or the Hermitage. Pissarro lived here between 1866 and 1883, choosing the rural environs for a series of large-scale landscape paintings that are regarded as some of his early masterpieces. This impression has been printed from a restrike edition, printed at some point between 1922-30 and the initials below the frame are stamped. Impressions made by Pissarro himself from the original plate are scarce and valuable, reflecting the artist's considerable status.

See: Guggenheim, 'Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): The Hermitage at Pontoise', https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/topic/camille-pissarro-hermitage-at-pontoise

Dr Mark Stocker Curator, Historical International Art May 2018