17/10/2023
"The Little Country Maid", 1882 Camille Pissarro - Mia Feigelson Gallery
By Camille Pissarro (Danish-French, 1830-1903)
oil on canvas; 63.5 x 53 cm (25 x 20.9 in.)
Place of creation: Osny, located 31.6 km (19.6 mi) from the centre of Paris, where Pissarro lived from 1882 to 1884. In 1884 he moved to Éragny-sur-Epte. Before moving to Osny he had lived in Pontoise for 10 years.
"This represents a room in Pissarro's house at Osny, near Pontoise, and the child is his fourth son, Ludovic Rodolphe (1878-1952), later known as a painter and wood-engraver under the name Ludovic Rodo. He devoted many years to the preparation of a catalogue of his father's work."
— Published in Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.611-12, reproduced p.611 https://bit.ly/2SFTQ7M
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Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1944 - Reference: N05575 | On loan to the National Gallery, London https://bit.ly/2SFTQ7M
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"This domestic interior depicts the dining room in Pissarro's house at Osny, near Pontoise in the French countryside not far from Paris. The child shown sitting at the table is the artist's fourth son, Ludovic Rodolphe. Pissarro spent much of his life near Pontoise and several of his paintings depict the surrounding landscape and its inhabitants.
In this picture he used the typical Impressionist device of cutting off objects at the edges of the painting, such as the table, chairs and the prints on the wall, in order to give the composition a sense of informality and immediacy. The small, feathery brushstrokes prefigure Pissarro's later Neo-Impressionist or Divisionist paintings." -— Find out more https://bit.ly/2SFTQ7M
