Setting Sun
1879
Camille Pissarro captures a quiet, rural moment in this sketchy landscape from 1879. Two large, pollarded trees stand like sentinels in the foreground, framing a lone figure walking along a path toward a hill lined with similar trees. The energetic, scratchy lines suggest wind or the fading light of the setting sun, a hallmark of his Impressionist style where capturing the fleeting atmosphere was key. Pissarro was the only artist to show in all eight Impressionist exhibitions, earning him the nickname 'the father of Impressionism' among his peers.
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