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A Village Street, Louveciennes
painting
Pissarro, Camille
Europe, France
1871
1969.67
oil/oil on canvas
46 x 55.5 cm
A Village Street, Louveciennes 1871
Camille Pissarro 1830-1903
Oil on canvas
Pissarro was the oldest and most consistent Impressionist
and was the only artist to exhibit at all of their shows.
He moved to the Parisian suberb of Louveciennes in 1869
to join other painters such as Monet, Renoir and Sisley,
but left in 1870 because of the Franco-Prussian War.
This view was painted after his return in 1871.
Suburbs interested the Impressionists as modern subjects.
Villages like Louveciennes had become subsumed by Paris,
while rail made them accessible to middle-class tourists.
Here Pissarro records a way of life under threat.
This example was bought in the 1870s by Samuel Barlow,
whose dye and bleach works were in Manchester.
His was the first Impressionist collection in Britain.
Purchased with the assistance of the Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund 1969.67
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