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A woman bends double to tend a garden that stretches before us in front of two houses in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is painted with short, visible brushstrokes with a palette dominated by spring, pine, and celery green and earthy tan, peanut, and chestnut brown. Touches of canary yellow, pale pink, coral, and ruby red suggest sunflowers, roses, and other flowers. The woman wears a long, steel-gray skirt and a long-sleeved olive-green shirt. Her brown hair is bound up, and her face and hands, indicated with only a few short swipes of paint, are pale peach. She stoops over a…
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The Artist's Garden at Eragny

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

1898

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.4 x 92.1 cm (28 7/8 x 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 94 x 113.4 x 10.2 cm (37 x 44 5/8 x 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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