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PISSARRO, Camille: Route de Versailles, Louveciennes

🖼 Route de Versailles, Louveciennes, 1870
Oil on canvas
33 × 41 cm
Williamstown, USA

Soft brushwork captures dappled sunlight filtering through bare trees onto a quiet country road lined with modest houses. Pissarro's intimate rural scene exemplifies Impressionism's focus on fleeting light effects and ordinary French landscapes, establishing the movement's revolutionary approach to color and perception.

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E. H. Gombrich
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