1878, Camille Pissarro, Mme Pissarro sewing beside a Window -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: This portrait was painted in 1878, shortly before the birth of the Pissarros' fourth son, Ludovic-Rodo. It shows Mme Pissarro sewing in front of a window in their home at Pontoise. She is absorbed in her task. calm and detached. Pissarro has concentrated on her face and the curling ironwork of the balcony, in heavily worked strokes of gentle colours, to create a mood of intimacy and hard work.
1878, Camille Pissarro, Mme Pissarro sewing beside a Window -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: This portrait was painted in 1878, shortly before the birth of the Pissarros' fourth son, Ludovic-Rodo. It shows Mme Pissarro sewing in front of a window in their home at Pontoise. She is absorbed in her task. calm and detached. Pissarro has concentrated on her face and the curling ironwork of the balcony, in heavily worked strokes of gentle colours, to create a mood of intimacy and hard work.