Camille Pissarro - Jalais Hill, Pontoise [1867]

Camille Pissarro - Jalais Hill, Pontoise [1867], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

The pictures that Pissarro painted in the late 1860s at Pontoise, a small village near Paris, are among his most important early works. These views of lanes, farm buildings, hillsides, and fields are firmly structured in composition and are characterised by strong brushstrokes and broad, flat areas of colour that owe much to the work of Courbet and Corot, whose paintings were then on view in large exhibitions in Paris.

[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 87 x 114.9 cm]