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PISSARRO, Camille: Morning, Overcast Weather, Rouen

🖼 Morning, Overcast Weather, Rouen, 1896
Oil on canvas
54 × 65 cm
New York, United States

Soft grey light bathes Rouen's cathedral, rendered in delicate brushstrokes that dissolve form into atmosphere. Pissarro captures fleeting weather conditions through color vibrations, pioneering the Impressionist technique of optical mixing that influenced modern art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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