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Spring, Morning, Cloudy, Eragny
- 1900
- Oil on canvas
- 65.4 x 81.0 cm
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The Pissarro’s hub of painting activities in his late years was his house in Éragny-sur-Epte to which he moved in 1884. He continued to execute his paintings, until his death in 1903, in his studio into which he remodeled a barn in the garden leading to an apple orchard. Éragny is located about 70 kilometers northwest of Paris, and 30 kilometers down the Epte River that flows past Éragny is Giverny, where Monet lived from 1883 onward and painted his Water Lilies series.
While he spent most of his time at his house in Éragny, Pissarro also often visited Paris and painted both scenes of rural life and urban life. During this period, due to the fact that regularly having solo exhibitions of his work was guaranteed under the exclusive contract he signed with the Galerie Durand-Ruel, he enjoyed a stable environment and favorable conditions in terms of his age, his financial situation, and also his artistic skills.
In 1900, Pissarro continued to create paintings in Paris from the previous year until April. He then returned to his home in Éragny and worked on painting over a period from spring to early summer in May to June. In the summer season from July to September, he traveled to Berneval-le-Grand, a summer resort on the Normandy coast, and then returned to Éragny again in the fall between October and November.
There are five spring landscapes and four autumn landscapes that Pissarro painted in Éragny in this year. Among them, one spring and one autumn landscapes are now housed in the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
As mentioned above, in the spring (May or June) of 1900 when this work was created, Pissarro concentrated on painting idyllic scenes during the height of spring in his studio near the orchard in Éragny. In his letter dated May 7, Pissarro poured out his passionate feelings toward the blooming orchard trees in Éragny. In this painting, he depicted a blossoming paradise in Éragny in a refreshing and lighthearted fashion. Pissarro probably attempted to capture the vividness of the new green leaves in the moist spring and the delightful beauty of the apple tree flowers in full bloom amid the cloudy sunshine typical of spring days. In a series of paintings such as this, Pissarro captured a momentary visual image of the ever-changing natural world on his canvas. Compared to Monet, who at this time was mainly interested in how colors were changed by light, Pissarro enjoyed creating variations of the same landscape by shifting his position and changing his perspective and leveraging changes in the season (spring, summer, autumn, winter), the time of day (morning, afternoon, evening), and the weather (clear sky, cloud, rain, snow).
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ARTIST
Camille Pissarro
(1830-1903)
Exhibit history
- Jul 28, 2023 (Fri)～Aug 27, 2023 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Modern Eastern and Western Painting Exhibition Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (Ishikawa, Japan) - Jan 12, 2019 (Sat)～May 4, 2019 (Sat)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China) - Oct 23, 2018 (Tue)～Dec 23, 2018 (Sun)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China) - Oct 8, 2015 (Thu)～Feb 21, 2016 (Sun)
Japan’s Love for Impressionism - from Monet to Renoir The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn, Germany) - Sep 13, 2014 (Sat)～Nov 3, 2014 (Mon)
Appetizing Art: When Art Meets Food Yokosuka Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) - Mar 11, 2014 (Tue)～May 11, 2014 (Sun)
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan) - Jan 15, 2014 (Wed)～Mar 2, 2014 (Sun)
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy Fukuoka City Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Jun 6, 2012 (Wed)～Aug 19, 2012 (Sun)
Camille Pissarro: Patriarche de la modernité Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Hyogo, Japan) - Jul 14, 2007 (Sat)～Nov 25, 2007 (Sun)
Impressionists and Its Sources: Monet, Renoir, and Barbizon Masters Musee d'art Mercian KARUIZAWA (Nagano, Japan) - Aug 1, 2003 (Fri)～Aug 31, 2003 (Sun)
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan) - Apr 18, 2003 (Fri)～May 25, 2003 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Jan 2, 2003 (Thu)～Jan 26, 2003 (Sun)
Great Masters of Modern Japanese Oil Paintings Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan) - Oct 12, 2002 (Sat)～Nov 10, 2002 (Sun)
Invitation to Occidental Painting Arts: from Barbizon School to Contemporary Art Abashiri Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan) - Sep 7, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 29, 2002 (Sun)
Four Centuries of Occidental Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection SOGO Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) - Jul 20, 2002 (Sat)～Aug 31, 2002 (Sat)
Masterpieces of the East and West to Learn with Parents and Children Fuji Art Museum (Shizuoka, Japan) - Jun 7, 2002 (Fri)～Jun 23, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Fukui City Art Museum (Fukui, Japan) - May 11, 2002 (Sat)～Jun 2, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Painting Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture Reimeikan (Kagoshima, Japan) - Apr 13, 2002 (Sat)～May 6, 2002 (Mon)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Oct 1, 2000 (Sun)～Dec 3, 2000 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan) - Jun 24, 1995 (Sat)～Sep 3, 1995 (Sun)
French Impressionism: Symphony of Light and Color Santillana Foundation (Santillana, Spain) - Nov 3, 1990 (Sat)～Dec 2, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea) - Sep 22, 1990 (Sat)～Oct 21, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Origin of collections
- Provenance:
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Evan Charteris, London
Acquabella Galleries,Inc New
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Manzi et Joyant, Rétrospective de Camille Pissarro, Jan-feb., 1914, no.30
London, The Tate Gallery, June-Oct., 1931, no.11
London, The Burligton House, Exposition d’Art Français, Jan.-March, 1932, no.531
Reference
L.R.. Pissarro and L.Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art/son œuvre, Paris, 1939, p.239, no.1140 (illustrated, pl.226)
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