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Trace the curve from the woman’s bent back to her hands and pale stocking, then look for echoes in the sloping bank.
Pissarro mentioned this composition in a letter to his son Lucien in November 1894, while still working through it. The thickly built paint records sustained revision. After completing this clothed figure, he made a nude variation in the same setting, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Oil on canvas · 73 × 92 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 92 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.); Framed: 95 × 113.1 × 12.4 cm (37 3/8 × 44 1/2 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
- 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.