(b. 1830, St Thomas, Virgin Islands, d. 1903, Paris)
Poultry Market at Pontoise
1882
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
Private collection
In the first half of the 1880s, Pissarro the landscape painter became a figure painter. The most striking of his new departures concerned his market scenes featuring a larger number of figures, and particularly open-air or indoor scenes in which farmers or maids are given dominant roles to play.
