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PISSARRO, Camille: Resting in the Woods (côte des Grouettes), Pontoise

🖼 Resting in the Woods (côte des Grouettes), Pontoise, 1878
Hamburg, Germany

Dappled sunlight filters through dense foliage, illuminating two figures resting on a woodland path rendered in soft, broken brushstrokes. Pissarro captures rural leisure with Impressionist immediacy, celebrating peasant life and nature's fleeting effects during his productive Pontoise period.

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