Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
Woman and Child at the Well
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Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)1882
Woman and Child at the Well
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) →Post-Impressionismnineteenth century19th centurypaintingpaint
Date
1882
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81.5 × 66.4 cm (32 1/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 81.6 × 6.1 cm (38 3/4 × 32 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Potter Palmer Collection
By the 1880s, Camille Pissarro, like most of his Impressionist colleagues, sought an alternative to the style he had employed over the previous decade, deciding to focus on figures rather than landscapes. Of the 36 paintings he showed at the seventh Impressionist exhibition, in the spring of 1882, 27 were figural. Woman and Child at the Well is one of a series of works depicting peasant girls taking a break from their chores, their poses and gestures suggesting narratives that remain ambiguous. As the model for the boy in this composition, Pissarro used his fourth son, Ludovic-Rodolphe, who was four years old at the time.
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