A man and woman stand in a sunny field near a line of cone-shaped haystacks under a massive blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. A muted blue shadow cuts across the flax-yellow ground close to us from our left. About a dozen golden-brown haystacks extend from the center of the composition off into the distance to our right. The people stand in the harvested field to our left. Tiny in scale, the woman wears a rose-pink dress and white apron and cap. She bends over as the man stands nearby, resting a scythe against…
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Landscape, Ile-de-France

Camille Pissarro (French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903)

1873

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 36.83 × 53.34 cm (14 1/2 × 21 in.) ; framed: 53.98 × 70.8 × 4.45 cm (21 1/4 × 27 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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