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Haymaking at Éragny
Camille Pissarro · 1892
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 65.5 × 81.3 cm (25 3/4 × 32 in.); Framed: 85.1 × 101.6 × 8.9 cm (33 1/2 × 40 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Made in
- France
- Style
- Impressionism
- Where to see it
- Art Institute of Chicago
Gift of Bruce Borland · CC0 Public Domain · Art Institute of Chicago · image via Wikimedia Commons · see it at the museum ↗
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About Camille Pissarro
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
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