Coteau de lhermitage pissarro biography
As he often did, Pissarro painted the same motif but in the snow.!
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
Camille Pissarro, 'The Côte des Bœufs at L'Hermitage', 1877
Some buildings can be seen on a wooded hillside called the Côte des Bœufs, which was close to Pissarro’s home in the hamlet of L’Hermitage, near Pontoise, where he lived for most of the time between 1866 and 1883.
A busy market town 30 kilometres north-west of Paris, Pontoise and its surroundings offered Pissarro access to quiet rural areas dotted with traditional farm buildings, which were locations for many of his paintings. The same hillside appears in at least one other work by him and was also painted by Cezanne when he visited Pissarro in 1877, the year in which this picture was painted.
The choice of a relatively large canvas – almost double the size Pissarro typically worked with – suggests this was intended to be a monumental painting with a carefully planned composition.
Pissarro has used the rows of slender tree trunks to divide the painting into a sequence of
