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PISSARRO, Camille: The Mailcoach. The Road from Ennery to the Hermitage

🖼 The Mailcoach. The Road from Ennery to the Hermitage, 1877
Oil on canvas
47 × 55 cm
Paris, France

Dappled light filters through trees as a horse-drawn mailcoach travels a rural French road, rendered in loose brushstrokes capturing fleeting atmosphere. Pissarro's 1877 scene exemplifies Impressionism's focus on transient light effects and everyday modern life over grand historical subjects.

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E. H. Gombrich
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