1867, Camille Pissarro, L'Hermitage near Pontoise -- Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne)
From the museum label: Pissarro, one of the important Impressionists, was living in Pontoise, to the north-west of Paris, when this picture was painted. L'Hermitage was once a separate village, only later being absorbed by the small town. This landscape is highly schematically constructed and thus radically modern. The large format underscores the artist's aspirations. Pissarro made a great impression on the writer Emile Zola: "You are very ham-fisted, monsieur; you're an artist I like." But Zola was not the only one on whom this picture made an impression. In Room 9 you can see the influence it had on one of Pissarro's best-known pupils, Paul Cézanne.
1867, Camille Pissarro, L'Hermitage near Pontoise -- Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne)
From the museum label: Pissarro, one of the important Impressionists, was living in Pontoise, to the north-west of Paris, when this picture was painted. L'Hermitage was once a separate village, only later being absorbed by the small town. This landscape is highly schematically constructed and thus radically modern. The large format underscores the artist's aspirations. Pissarro made a great impression on the writer Emile Zola: "You are very ham-fisted, monsieur; you're an artist I like." But Zola was not the only one on whom this picture made an impression. In Room 9 you can see the influence it had on one of Pissarro's best-known pupils, Paul Cézanne.