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AT-00000269Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise
Also known as: Le Fond de l'Hermitage
About the Artwork
Born to a French-Jewish family on St. Thomas island in the Caribbean, Pissarro painted this monumental landscape when he was desperately poor and struggling to sell his paintings. It depicts a man slumbering in the sun-dappled backwoods of the Hermitage, a rural village near Pontoise, where the artist had been living since 1872. Restricting his palette to pure hues, Pissarro applied brushstrokes in systematic diagonal patterns, producing an effect that he likened to knitting. This canvas was included in the fourth Impressionist exhibition of 1879.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: C. Pissarro 79
Provenance
1903-1913: Family of the artist, sold to Bernheim-Jeune 1913-1935: (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to L’Art Moderne) 1935: (L'Art Moderne, Lucerne) 1935: (L'Art Moderne sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 20, 1935 (no. 59), sold to André Schoeller) 1935-: (André Schoeller [1898-1991], Paris) ?: (Charles Comiot, Paris Until 1951: (César de Hauke and Hector Brame, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1951-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
De David a Toulouse-Lautrec : chefs-d’oeuvres des collections americaines. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (April 20-July 5, 1955). In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). Camille Pissarro: The Unexplored Impressionist. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (October 30, 1980-January 11, 1981); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (January 30-April 27, 1981); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (May 19-August 9, 1981). The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (January 16-April 6, 1986); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (April 19-July 6, 1986). Camille Pissarro and Impressionism. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, D-70184 Stuttgart, Germany (organizer) (December 11, 1999-May 1, 2000). Cézanne and Pissarro: Making Modernism. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (June 24-September 12, 2005); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (October 20, 2005-January 16, 2006); Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (February 27-May 28, 2006). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Pissarro. A Meeting on St. Thomas. Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Copenhagen, Denmark (organizer) (March 9-July 2, 2017).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 166 x 204 x 16.5 cm (65 3/8 x 80 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 125 x 163 cm (49 3/16 x 64 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Accession no.
- 1951.356
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