Road to Versailles at Louveciennes 1869

Road to Versailles at Louveciennes 1869: Camille Pissarro

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Camille Pissarro Oil Painting - Road to Versailles at Louveciennes 1869

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Work Overview: The Road to Versailles at Louveciennes
Camille Pissarro
Date: 1869
Style: Realism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 38.4 x 46.3 cm
Location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, US

In 1869 Pissarro settled in Louveciennes and would often paint the road to Versailles in various seasons.[13] The Walters Art Museum.
For a time in 1869, Pissarro settled in Louveciennes, a rural suburb approximately 12 miles west of Paris. It was during this time period that Pissarro developed his mature Impressionist style, which reached its height in the mid-1870s. In this early Impressionist effort, Pissarro captures a fleeting sensation of the winter season, constructing his composition through the use of quick dashes of color. The long shadows cast on the new-fallen snow by passersby explore the atmospheric effects of cold winter light. The freshness and thickness of the brushstrokes, most easily identified in the trees' branches and the colorful garments of the townspeople, are the sort of constructive building blocks Pissarro would eventually pass down to Cézanne. The more smoothly distributed paint of the sky and the snow-covered ground demonstrate Pissarro's transformation of Realist naturalism into what would become the experimental, rough Impressionist aesthetic.

In 1869, Pissarro settled in Louveciennes, a suburban village northwest of Paris frequented by the Impressionists. Pissarro often painted his own house and studio, which were situated on the north side of the village on the road to Versailles, in varying seasons and climatic conditions. When Paris was under siege during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), the Prussians garrisoned their troops in Pissarro's house, destroying most of his early paintings. This painting, one of his few surviving early works, reflects Pissarro's affinities with Claude Monet, a frequent houseguest, who was also attracted to this site.

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