Camille Pissarro
French, 1830–1903
At the Window, rue des Trois Frères
INV-1863
Camille Pissarro
French, 1830–19031878–79
At the Window, rue des Trois Frères
Camille Pissarro French, 1830–1903 →prints and drawingpastel
Date
1878–79
Medium
Pastel on cream wove pastel paper, perimeter mounted on light gray wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 38 × 26.3 cm (15 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 38.2 × 26.4 cm (15 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Camille Pissarro composed this pastel in front of a window in his apartment in the Montmartre district of Paris. He used his wife Julie as a model, as well as two young girls, who possibly memorialize his recently deceased daughters. Pissarro created many works at his rural residences outside of Paris, but in this pastel he embraced the interior—yet visibly urban—setting of his rented home. Even indoors, Pissarro found a way to investigate the effects of natural light, which is characteristic of his Impressionist style.
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