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Camille Pissarro
(1830–1903)
The Pond at Montfoucault
Montfoucault, Normandy, 1875
Oil on canvas
The Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro executed this landscape whilst staying at a friend’s farm in Normandy in the autumn of 1875. The artist called the remote smallholding the ‘true countryside’ and he included working figures in many of his views. Here a woman tends a herd of cows with geese beyond. Pissarro creates a fine autumnal effect using warm tones heavily worked with a palette knife and brush. The existence of two preparatory studies, however, suggests that despite the apparently spontaneous handling of paint it was produced in the studio.
Purchased 1955 (No. 55.16)