We look slightly down onto two girls or young women with light skin sitting close to us in a green, grassy field in this square landscape painting. At the bottom center of the composition, the closest girl has her back to us and wears a blue and white striped shirt over a long skirt painted with a blend of muted red and yellow strokes. A blue apron covers most of the front of her legs, and at least one black shoe emerges from the bottom hem, resting in the grass. Her brown hair is pulled up and covered by a red and white-checked cap. She looks toward her companion to our right, who turns her…
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Young Peasant Girls Resting in the Fields near Pontoise

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

1882

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65.41 × 81.6 cm (25 3/4 × 32 1/8 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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