Ploughed Field in Winter with a Man Carrying a Bundle of Sticks

Camille Pissarro created the oil painting Ploughed Field in Winter with a Man Carrying a Bundle of Sticks in 1877. Executed on canvas, the work depicts a winter landscape featuring a field, trees, and a figure carrying a bundle of sticks. The painting is currently held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

No specific information regarding the original commission, the initial owner, or the detailed chain of ownership prior to its arrival at the museum is provided in the available records.

Camille Pissarro painted Ploughed Field in Winter with a Man Carrying a Bundle of Sticks in 1877, an oil on canvas measuring 38 cm by 45.5 cm that exemplifies his Impressionist focus on rural labor and seasonal effects; the work was created during his mature period in Paris and reflects his engagement with plein air techniques and the social realities of agricultural workers, situating it within the broader Impressionist movement that redefined landscape painting in the late nineteenth century, as documented in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection records and scholarly analyses of Pissarro's oeuvre

Created in 1889, this oil painting captures a wintery agricultural scene where a solitary figure trudges across a ploughed field, bearing a bundle of sticks. The composition is dominated by muted earth tones and a pale sky, conveying the quiet austerity of the season.