Artwork
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. It dates from 1895 and is held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Overview
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook is an oil on canvas painting depicting a peasant girl bending to wash her feet in a brook, characterized by a notably rough, encrusted surface.
Subject & Meaning
The painting focuses on a humble, everyday moment of a peasant girl engaged in a personal, serene activity, emphasizing the beauty in mundane rural life.
Technique & Style
The work features a prominent impasto technique, evident in its heavily textured surface, a result of the artist's iterative process and multiple revisions.
History & Provenance
Camille Pissarro considered the work nearly complete by November 1894 but sought to add a final, elusive element. He later created a nude variation of the scene in 1895, now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Artist & collection
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…
