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Follow the raked hay toward the distant workers, then compare the nearest woman’s upright body with the young trees.
Pissarro painted this view from his studio window at Éragny. Technical examination suggests two main stages: he painted the landscape first and added the foreground hay and nearest figure later. Her pose also appears in earlier works, showing how an observed field could incorporate a figure developed separately.
Oil on canvas · 65.5 × 81.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Haymaking at Éragny
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.5 × 81.3 cm (25 3/4 × 32 in.); Framed: 85.1 × 101.6 × 8.9 cm (33 1/2 × 40 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Bruce Borland
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.