Shop art print and framed art   Les toits rouges, coin de village, effet d'hiver by Camille Pissarro

Les Toits rouges (Red Roofs, Village Corner, Winter Effect, full museum title) is one of the best-known paintings by the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. It is painted in oil on canvas and measures 53 × 64 cm. It was painted in 1877. It was in the Musée du Jeu de Paume and is currently in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The Red Roofs (A Village in Winter) is a landscape painting. It focuses on the red roofs of a village in winter, near Pontoise. Above, we can see a hill and, at the very top, a fringe of blue sky. In the foreground are fruit trees. The work was produced at a time in his career when Pissarro was looking for a diaphanous atmosphere. We can also see the influence of Paul Cézanne in the construction of the landscape. It is an example of Pissarro's favourite motifs: rural, simple and natural. The colours clash with a certain violence, especially the complementary ones. Pissarro uses small, rapid brushstrokes that unify the whole [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Les toits rouges, coin de village, effet d'hiver » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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