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Lot Essay
Pissarro painted over 350 paintings of his immediate rural surroundings in the small village of Eragny-sur-Epte where he lived the from 1884 to 1903.
This painting stands as a testament to his years spent in the fields and orchards of this Norman village recording the changing seasons, the agricultural labours, and the varying weather conditions. As Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel point out: "There is an intensity about these paintings now representing Eragny-sur-Epte as opposed to Pontoise, that enriches them with an almost visionary quality." (quoted in exh. cat., Camille Pissarro 1830-1903, Hayward Gallery, London, October 1980 - January, 1981 p.134). At Eragny, Pissarro had finally found the paradise he sought where man, art, and nature found a harmonious relationship ordered by the rural calendar and the rhythm of the seasons.
This painting stands as a testament to his years spent in the fields and orchards of this Norman village recording the changing seasons, the agricultural labours, and the varying weather conditions. As Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel point out: "There is an intensity about these paintings now representing Eragny-sur-Epte as opposed to Pontoise, that enriches them with an almost visionary quality." (quoted in exh. cat., Camille Pissarro 1830-1903, Hayward Gallery, London, October 1980 - January, 1981 p.134). At Eragny, Pissarro had finally found the paradise he sought where man, art, and nature found a harmonious relationship ordered by the rural calendar and the rhythm of the seasons.