The River Oise Near Pontoise by Camille Pissarro was created in 1873. The painting is in Clark Art Institute Williamstown. The size of the work is 46 x 55,7 cm and is made of oil on canvas.
Pissarro made several paintings featuring the factory located across the river from his home in Pontoise. Although the buildings caused considerable changes to the landscape and river, the artist presents them here as harmoniously integrated into the setting. The artist’s technique—his use of quick touches of color to record the brilliant light and the flowers in the foreground—is as modern as his subject matter… Read more in Clark Art Institute Williamstown
About the Artist
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the “pivotal” figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “dean of the Impressionist painters”, not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also “by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality”. Paul Cézanne said “he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord”, and he was also one of Paul Gauguin’s masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as “revolutionary”, through his artistic portrayals of the “common man”, as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without “artifice or grandeur”. Read more in Wikipedia
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