The Lock at Pontoise

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The Lock at Pontoise, 1872. oil on fabric.

oil on fabric · Framed: 76.8 x 105.7 x 11.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Impressionism

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Museum title: The Lock at Pontoise
Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
Date: 1872
Medium: oil on fabric
Dimensions: Framed: 76.8 x 105.7 x 11.4 cm (30 1/4 x 41 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 53 x 83 cm (20 7/8 x 32 11/16 in.)
Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1830–1903

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.