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Woman Washing Her Feet in a Brook
Camille Pissarro
10 Lip 1830 – 13 Lis 1903
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| On the bank of a narrow brook, in the shade of lush greenery, a young peasant woman bends to dip her feet in the cool water. Camille Pissarro seizes this intimate, almost private moment with tenderness and gravity, as though it were a scene from an ancient idyll. Beside her, on the grass, lie her stockings and wooden clogs — a small, human detail that makes the whole scene warm and true. The painting shimmers with jewel-like colours: dense greens, silvery reflections of water and warm accents of skin and cloth merge into a rich, heavily textured surface. Pissarro applies the paint in layers, almost sculpturally, building the matter of the picture with small touches of the brush. This dense, laboured texture testifies to the long months the artist spent over the canvas, seeking that 'little something' meant to complete the composition. This work belongs to a series in which Pissarro portrayed country women at their daily tasks with respect and dignity. Contrary to the Impressionist legend of plein-air painting, the picture was made in the studio, from a model and on the basis of preparatory drawings — evidence of a considered, almost classical construction of the scene. The foot-bath becomes a timeless theme here, joining the realism of village life with an echo of the great tradition of figure painting. In a letter to his son Lucien of November 1894, Pissarro wrote of 'a little peasant girl dipping her feet in the water,' considering the work almost finished yet still lacking 'that little something' — and optimistically added: 'I think I will get it, I feel it!'. After completing this version (today at the Art Institute of Chicago) he painted a variation with a nude in the same pose — a rarity in his oeuvre — which entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
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DETAILS Title: Woman Washing Her Feet in a Brook Original title: Le Bain de pieds Artist: Camille Pissarro Date: 1894–1895 Place of origin: Éragny-sur-Epte, France Type : Painting Technique: Oil on canvas Genre: Genre scene Style: Impressionism Form: Painting |
Camille Pissarro - Woman Washing Her Feet in a Brook
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