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Spring Pasture
Spring Pasture is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. It dates from 1895 and is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Subject & Meaning
Camille Pissarro's 1889 oil painting Spring Pasture depicts a rural landscape scene. The composition features a woman and a goat situated within the pasture, alongside a house that anchors the background. As a work of the landscape genre, the painting focuses on the representation of the countryside and its inhabitants engaged in daily life.
Technique & Style
As a landscape composition, the piece depicts a rural scene featuring a house, a woman, and a goat.
Created in 1889, Spring Pasture is an oil painting executed on canvas by Camille Pissarro. The work measures 60 cm in height and 73.7 cm in width. As a landscape composition, the piece depicts a rural scene featuring a house, a woman, and a goat.
The application of oil paint on a woven support aligns with the artist's standard practice for outdoor scenes during this period, capturing the specific elements of the countryside through a direct handling of the medium.
History & Provenance
Camille Pissarro completed the oil painting Spring Pasture in 1889. The work depicts a landscape scene featuring a woman, a goat, and a house. It is currently held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, having been acquired through the White Fund.
Spring Pasture is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The work was acquired through the White Fund. While specific inventory or accession numbers are not provided in the available records, the painting is cataloged within the museum's holdings as an 1889 oil on canvas landscape. The sources do not contain information regarding any past or current exhibitions featuring this specific artwork.
Overview
Camille Pissarro’s 1895 oil painting Spring Pasture presents a bucolic tableau of a woman guiding a goat across a sunlit meadow. A solitary tree frames the left side, while a modest red‑tiled house rests in the middle distance beneath a pale blue sky. The work belongs to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Context
By the mid‑1890s Pissarro had studied under Realist and Barbizon masters such as Courbet and Corot, and collaborated with Seurat and Signac. Spring Pasture illustrates how these experiences informed his approach to light, color, and rural subject matter during a time of artistic experimentation in France.
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