1895
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Bather and Geese is a 1895 by Camille Pissarro, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a woman bending over near a body of water, her arm raised as if shielding her face. Around her, a flock of geese floats on the surface, their feathers dark against the lighter water. The scene is drawn in loose, quick lines, with trees and bushes in the background looking rough and textured. The artist left some areas dark while keeping others light, which makes the woman and geese stand out. This style was common in sketches from that time. Next, look up Impressionism to see how this fits into the bigger picture.
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French: ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
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