1866
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
La Roche-Guyon is a 1866 by Camille Pissarro, a Impressionism work, depicting Road, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a steep cliff rising over a quiet village, drawn in quick, scratchy lines. Pissarro made this as an etching—basically a printed drawing. Instead of just carving lines, he left ink on the plate to create soft shadows and bright sunlight. It’s an early work, before he became known for colorful paintings. Look up *impasto* to see how artists build up paint for a similar textured feel.
A very early etching by the Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, this view of the massive rocks at La Roche-Guyon reveals the artist’s painterly attitude toward printmaking. Using only the etched line and a layer of ink left on his printing plate's surface, Pissarro created a dramatic landscape filled with brilliant sunlight and soft shadows.
Camille Pissarro favored rural life and lived in the small village of La Roche-Guyon during the 1860s, when this print was made.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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