Orchards at Louveciennes

Camille Pissarro

1872

Oil on canvas

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A sunlit path winds through a rural landscape with trees and fields leading to a village in the distance under a cloudy sky. A sunlit path winds through a rural landscape with trees and fields leading to a village in the distance under a cloudy sky. Conservation was generously funded by Cynthia S. Larsen Among the many highlights of Bruce Dayton's generous 2016 bequest is this painting by Camille Pissarro, the French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter. In 1872, the date of this painting, Pissarro established a collective society of fifteen younger artists, becoming the pivotal figure in holding the Impressionist group together. Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886, and