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Compare the woman’s lowered hands with the child’s raised arms, then follow the diagonal path between the blue clothing and greenery.
In the early 1880s, Pissarro gave rural figures a larger role in his painting. His four-year-old son Ludovic-Rodolphe modeled for the child here. The watering can and well suggest a pause in everyday chores, but the exchange between the two figures remains open to interpretation.
Oil on canvas · 81.5 × 66.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Woman and Child at the Well
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.5 × 66.4 cm (32 1/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 81.6 × 6.1 cm (38 3/4 × 32 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- 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.