Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook

1895

Pissarro referred to this painting in a letter of November 1894, when he wrote to his son Lucien that he wanted to send him a picture of “a little peasant girl dipping her feet in the water.” At the time, he considered the work almost finished but still lacking “that little something,” exclaiming optimistically, “I think I will get it, I feel it!” His continued ruminations on the composition may explain its heavily encrusted surface.

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Artist

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

Date

1895

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73 × 92 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.); Framed: 95 × 113.1 × 12.4 cm (37 3/8 × 44 1/2 × 4 7/8 in.)

Origin

France

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation