Côte des Grouettes, near Pontoise
probably 1878
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 1/8 x 23 5/8 in. (74 x 60 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Janice H. Levin, 1991
Accession Number
1991.277.2
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About this artwork
Camille Pissarro's "Côte des Grouettes, near Pontoise" (probably 1878) exemplifies Impressionist landscape painting at its most refined and technically accomplished. This canvas (29 1/8 x 23 5/8 inches) depicts countryside near Pontoise, where Pissarro lived and worked for nearly two decades beginning in 1866, creating an extensive visual record of the region's agricultural landscapes, villages, and inhabitants. The purple flowers at lower left suggest spring, dating the work to early 1878, a pe...
About the Artist
Camille Pissarro · 1831–1903
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) stands as the patriarch of Impressionism, the only artist to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and a mentor whose influence shaped the trajectory of modern art. Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas to a Jewish-Portuguese merchant family, he abandoned the family business to pursue painting, eventually settling in Paris i...