Houses at Bougival (Autumn), Camille Pissarro, 1870

Within a few hundred yards of his home, camille pissarro painted a view of peasants working in a shady, wooded garden alongside a group of village houses. In the foreground, a woman carrying a bucket pauses to talk with a young boy carrying his school satchel over his shoulder. The gray sky and the trees losing their leaves indicate that it is autumn. Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: 1870. Place of creation: France. Dimensions: height: 88.9 cm (35 in) ; width: 116.2 cm (45.7 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Getty Center. Maisons à Bougival, automne, par Camille Pissarro, Getty Museum, edited