🎨Camille Pissarro,(French,b.in Charlotte Amalie,St Thomas 1830-1903 d.Paris),Two Young Peasant Women,1891-92,oil on canvas,35¼×45⅞ in.(89.5×116.5 cm)
By virtue of their size,placement,and dignity,these youthful laborers dominate the landscape setting-an open field near Pissaro's house at Éragny.Sympathetic to anarchist ideas,the artist wanted to preserve the values of agrarian society that were being threatened by the rapid industrialization of France.He began this picture in summer 1891 and completed it in mid-January 1892,a month before the opening of a major exhibition of his work organized by his dealer Joseph Durand-Ruel.Many of the fifty paintings were sold in the show,but Pissaro kept this canvas and gave it to his wife-the MET
Note:A drawing for the seated figure appeared in 1928 in the sale of Mme Pissaro's pictures.The field in the background near the artist's house at Éragny,is seen from the same angle in two other pictures.Pissaro probably began this picture in the summer of 1891,but,because of eye trouble,did not finish it until just before the retrospective exhibition of his work at Durand-Ruel in January 1892.He considered it one of the three most important of the fifty pictures he showed at the exhibition.This is the last large canvas that Pissaro painted.
🎨Camille Pissarro,(French,b.in Charlotte Amalie,St Thomas 1830-1903 d.Paris),Two Young Peasant Women,1891-92,oil on canvas,35¼×45⅞ in.(89.5×116.5 cm)
By virtue of their size,placement,and dignity,these youthful laborers dominate the landscape setting-an open field near Pissaro's house at Éragny.Sympathetic to anarchist ideas,the artist wanted to preserve the values of agrarian society that were being threatened by the rapid industrialization of France.He began this picture in summer 1891 and completed it in mid-January 1892,a month before the opening of a major exhibition of his work organized by his dealer Joseph Durand-Ruel.Many of the fifty paintings were sold in the show,but Pissaro kept this canvas and gave it to his wife-the MET
Note:A drawing for the seated figure appeared in 1928 in the sale of Mme Pissaro's pictures.The field in the background near the artist's house at Éragny,is seen from the same angle in two other pictures.Pissaro probably began this picture in the summer of 1891,but,because of eye trouble,did not finish it until just before the retrospective exhibition of his work at Durand-Ruel in January 1892.He considered it one of the three most important of the fifty pictures he showed at the exhibition.This is the last large canvas that Pissaro painted.