1985.R.42 Camille Pissarro, The Road to Versailles, Louveciennes: Morning Frost


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
Camille Pissarro captures a cold morning and the resulting veneer of frost that coats the picturesque Parisian suburb of Louveciennes, where the artist lived at the time. This painting depicts the landscape in late fall or early winter, just as the trees lose their leaves and frost begins to form. The sun rises and casts long shadows, melting the ephemeral frost.

1985.R.44 Camille Pissarro, Self Portrait


GENERAL DESCRIPTION 
One of only four self-portraits by Camille Pissarro, this three-quarter-length likeness was created during a particularly sorrowful time in the artist's life. In 1897, one of Pissarro's sons suffered a stroke and another died from tuberculosis. Additionally, he was plagued with the worsening of a chronic eye infection that forced him to paint indoors.