The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)
Camille Pissarro
1881
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/8 × 21 3/4 in. (46 × 55.2 cm) Framed: 28 3/8 × 31 15/16 in. (72.1 × 81.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.197
Tags
WomenWorkingHarvesting
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...