Ornamental Lake at Kew Gardens, London (Pièce d'eau à Kew, Londres)
Camille Pissarro
French, 1830–1903
Details
Title
Ornamental Lake at Kew Gardens, London (Pièce d'eau à Kew, Londres)
Artist/Maker
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
Date
1892
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Framed/Mounted: 28 x 31 1/2 inches (71.1 cm x 80 cm) Support/Overall: 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 inches, (46 cm x 54.9 cm,)
Credit
Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection
Accession #
2019.156
Like other French artists, Camille Pissarro moved his family to London at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Like Claude Monet, he returned to England several more times to live and work—in 1890, 1892, and 1897. This picture of the famous black swans at London’s Kew Gardens—a tourist attraction to this day—was painted during Pissarro’s 1892 visit.
