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The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)  1881

by Camille Pissarro

The theme of potato gathering recurs in Pissarro’s oeuvre in a number of media—pencil, gouache, oil, and prints—over a period of thirty years. The artist is borrowing a subject from the great Barbizon painter Camille Corot, while anticipating the more staccato, broken brushwork of later artists such as Georges Seurat. In the Lehman Collection painting, Pissarro’s treatment...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art