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Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (Effect of Sunlight)  1898

by Camille Pissarro

By the time of Pissarro’s fourth visit to Rouen in 1898, he was "already familiar with the motifs there." The artist depicted many of the same cityscapes that he had tackled previously, but also scouted out new scenes, such as this one. On August 19, he wrote to his son Lucien: "Yesterday I found an excellent place from which I can paint the rue de l'Épicerie and even the ...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art