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The Public Garden at Pontoise

1874
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 820

Pissarro’s paintings of the mid-1870s are largely devoted to the fields and roads near his home in Pontoise. Here, he turned to a more urban subject, of the type favored by colleagues such as Monet and Renoir: the town’s public garden. The view across the Montmorency plain toward Paris may be glimpsed at left, beyond the spire of Pontoise's Notre-Dame church. But rather than emphasizing the vista, Pissarro focused on the park’s terraces, populated by well-dressed bourgeois and their children. He exhibited a similar scene, painted the year previously (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Public Garden at Pontoise
  • Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
  • Date: 1874
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. (60 x 73 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Murray, 1964
  • Object Number: 64.156
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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