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Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903):
Farm at Montfoucault: Snow Effect
A822; oil on canvas; 54 x 65 cm.
Signed and dated: C. Pissarro 1876.
Presented by the Pissarro Family, 1951; WA1951.225.2.
Pissarro and Venturi 1939, no. 283; Thorold and Erickson 1993, no. 6.
Montfoucault was one of the farms owned by the Piette family in Mayenne, where Pissarro spent long periods between 1874 and 1876. The landscape was different from that at Pontoise, made up of small fields enclosed by hedgerows and the horizons blocked. Pissarro's style became more rustic, with shorter brush-strokes in thicker paint creating a more rugged surface and expressive texture in keeping with the landscape.
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Information derived from the Ashmolean Museum's Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.