View from My Window, Eragny by Camille Pissarro

View from My Window, Eragny by Camille Pissarro (oil on canvas, 25-5/8x31-1/2 inches) can be found at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.

Always open to new ideas, Pissarro experimented with Neo-Impressionism. View from My Window, Eragny is organized into planes, reflecting the orderly garden plots and fields that he observed from his window. Pissarro's color, applied in dots and dabs, is fresh and bright, with pure high hues in the foreground and a subtle and muted mix in the sky. Tone conveys the atmospheric effect, seen in the shades of pale blue, pink, and violet in the distant clouds.

Camille Pissarro wasn't limited to oil and canvas, however. On the next page we'll see an etching from the Impressionist master.

For more on Impressionist paintings, artists, and art history, see:

• Impressionism
• Vincent van Gogh
• Claude Monet