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Bath Road, London, (sketch)
Bath Road, London, (sketch) is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. It dates from 1899 and is held in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum.
About this work
It looks out from 62 Bath Road, where Pissarro’s son Lucien had just moved with his wife Esther and their daughter Orovida.
Bath Road, London is a sketch from 1897 by French painter Camille Pissarro. He used oil paint for this work.
The painting shows the new garden suburb of Bedford Park near Chiswick, known for its Queen Anne Revival houses. It looks out from 62 Bath Road, where Pissarro’s son Lucien had just moved with his wife Esther and their daughter Orovida. At this time Camille returned to a more orthodox form of impressionism.
You can see more of this work at the Ashmolean Museum.
Overview
Bath Road, London is a sketch painted in oil by Camille Pissarro in 1897. It is a representation of the Bedford Park area near Chiswick.
Subject & Meaning
The painting captures a view from 62 Bath Road, where Pissarro's son Lucien lived with his family. The scene includes Lucien's wife Esther and daughter Orovida playing in their front garden, set against the backdrop of Queen Anne Revival architecture characteristic of the Bedford Park garden suburb.
Technique & Style
Pissarro employed a more traditional Impressionist style in this work, marking a return to his earlier techniques.
History & Provenance
The sketch is now part of the Ashmolean Museum's collection.
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Artist
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…
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