During the 1870s, many of the Impressionist landscape painters went to live in the small towns surrounding Paris. They painted the ordinary scenes of the nearby countryside with a fresh, direct approach, often working outdoors. The balanced composition and cool harmony of blues, greens, and creamy yellow give this river view a serene stability typical of the work of Pissarro, a leader in the group and an important mentor to Cézanne and Gauguin.

 

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   During the 1870s, many of the Impressionist landscape painters chose to live in small towns on the outskirts of Paris. There, they painted ordinary views of the surrounding countryside, often working outdoors in order to capture effects of light and atmosphere. In this carefully composed scene of a village road beside a river, Pissarro renders swaths of sunlight streaming through a batch of trees with long strokes of buttery blond paint. The woman, child, and horseman who cross paths along the road barely animate this structured, if static, composition, with its arrangement of horizontal bands.

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