1872, Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard des Fossés, Pontoise -- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
From the museum label: Pissarro moved back to the town of Pontoise, twenty miles northwest of Paris, in August 1872. He had spent 1870-71—a turbulent year in France—abroad in London. There he had encountered the paintings of John Constable, an early-nineteenth-century landscapist whose sensitive portrayals of clouds likely inspired the overcast sky in this picture. Pissarro's first autumn back in Pontoise was among the most productive periods of his career; he turned out twenty-seven views of the town and its environs. Here, with remarkable concision, he evoked a newly built boulevard, its sidewalks lined with saplings, its gutters filled with fallen leaves.
1872, Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard des Fossés, Pontoise -- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
From the museum label: Pissarro moved back to the town of Pontoise, twenty miles northwest of Paris, in August 1872. He had spent 1870-71—a turbulent year in France—abroad in London. There he had encountered the paintings of John Constable, an early-nineteenth-century landscapist whose sensitive portrayals of clouds likely inspired the overcast sky in this picture. Pissarro's first autumn back in Pontoise was among the most productive periods of his career; he turned out twenty-seven views of the town and its environs. Here, with remarkable concision, he evoked a newly built boulevard, its sidewalks lined with saplings, its gutters filled with fallen leaves.