1877, Camille Pissarro, The rainbow, Pontoise -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: Pissarro was one of the most influential and innovative of the impressionists. On the advice of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, whom he admired greatly, he began painting landscapes in the vicinity of villages and towns around Paris, such as Pontoise and Montmartre. He was one of Vincent van Gogh's first admirers and influenced him during his stay in Paris to start using brighter colours and paint more freely. He himself joined a group of younger artists, such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the eighteen eighties and studied new techniques such as pointillism. Pissarro was fascinated by the effect of light on his subjects. That is evident not only in his paintings of Parisian streets in different weather conditions, such as rainy or foggy, but also in his numerous landscapes. In this work he paints a rainbow over Pontoise, with the unusual light of the sun breaking through after a downpour.
1877, Camille Pissarro, The rainbow, Pontoise -- Kroller-Muller Museum (Otterlo)
From the museum label: Pissarro was one of the most influential and innovative of the impressionists. On the advice of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, whom he admired greatly, he began painting landscapes in the vicinity of villages and towns around Paris, such as Pontoise and Montmartre. He was one of Vincent van Gogh's first admirers and influenced him during his stay in Paris to start using brighter colours and paint more freely. He himself joined a group of younger artists, such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the eighteen eighties and studied new techniques such as pointillism. Pissarro was fascinated by the effect of light on his subjects. That is evident not only in his paintings of Parisian streets in different weather conditions, such as rainy or foggy, but also in his numerous landscapes. In this work he paints a rainbow over Pontoise, with the unusual light of the sun breaking through after a downpour.