Pissarro at Éragny
In 1884 Pissarro moved his large family to Éragny-sur-Epte, a village in Normandy, and its orchards and meadows filled his canvases for the rest of his life.
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About the series
The house stood at the edge of the village with a long garden and a view across fields to the next village. Pissarro rented it at first and bought it in 1892 with money lent by Monet, who lived about 20 kilometres away at Giverny. He kept his studio there until he died in 1903, painting the same meadow and orchard at harvest, in snow and in spring blossom.
In the mid 1880s, influenced by Seurat and Signac, he spent a few years painting in tiny dots of pure colour. View from My Window, Éragny, now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and Pear Trees in Bloom at Éragny come from that period. He later went back to a freer touch, which he found better suited to catching changes of light.
The dotted paintings are soft and even in tone. The later ones are looser and more open, and pair well with a Monet or a Sisley.
