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Look at the window light on the woman’s face and hands as she stirs her cup, then move close to see the short, layered strokes.
In the early 1880s Pissarro worked to keep the Impressionists together, persuading Caillebotte and Monet to join the group’s seventh exhibition in 1882, where he showed several paintings of young peasant women. Here small strokes laid side by side, with thicker dabs on top, build a rough surface. The texture ties the woman to the window and wall behind her and suggests the wool of her clothes.
Oil on canvas · 65.3 × 54.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Young Peasant Having Her Coffee
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.3 × 54.8 cm (25 11/16 × 21 9/16 in.); Framed: 87.4 × 77.5 × 7.4 cm (34 3/8 × 30 1/2 × 2 7/8 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.