The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)

1881
Not on view
The theme of potato gathering recurs in Pissarro’s oeuvre in a number of media—pencil, gouache, oil, and prints—over a period of thirty years. The artist is borrowing a subject from the great Barbizon painter Camille Corot, while anticipating the more staccato, broken brushwork of later artists such as Georges Seurat. In the Lehman Collection painting, Pissarro’s treatment of harvesters in Pontoise is carefully structured, while remaining expressive in tone and brushwork.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)
  • Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
  • Date: 1881
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 18 1/8 × 21 3/4 in. (46 × 55.2 cm)
    Framed: 28 3/8 × 31 15/16 in. (72.1 × 81.1 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.197
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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