ID: 700007857 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007857	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Louveciennes, Route de Saint-Germain (drawing (visual work); Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 - 1903) (French Artist); 1871; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2007.1)

Note: As inscribed at lower left, the drawing shows the road to the town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye from Louveciennes, the village outside Paris to which the artist returned from England in June 1871. Pissarro had initially moved to Louveciennes from Pontoise in 1869 in order to work closely with the rising stars of landscape painting who were living and painting there: Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Auguste Renoir. Pissarro first indicated the main features of the composition using black chalk: the road curving into the middle distance, the almost bare trees lining the road, and the buildings set along the horizon to the right. He then fleshed out the composition by covering the entire paper surface with watercolor, using his chalk underdrawing as a guide. Pissarro used a muted palette of blacks, browns, greens and blues in combination with a wet, fluid technique to capture the sense of fall turning to winter in this landscape. By sweeping a very wet brush in broad strokes, sometimes with a minimal amount of pigment (as to suggest the blustery sky) Pissarro experimented with some of the spontaneous effects of watercolor, allowing it to pool and tide in some areas and to be evenly applied in others to create a diffuse light. Pissarro used smaller strokes with more pigment on the brush to articulate the foliage, both on and fallen from the trees, and the figure and carriage traveling along the road.

Titles:

Louveciennes, Route de Saint-Germain (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Louveciennes, Route to Saint-Germain (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1871

Creator Display:

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 - 1903) (French Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Pissarro, Camille (French painter and printmaker, 1830-1903) [500001924]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2007.1

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Watercolor over black chalk

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

Dimensions: 30.2 x 49.2 cm (11 7/8 x 19 3/8 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Impressionist (style) [300021503] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	road [300008217]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Open Spaces and Site Elements (hierarchy name ), open spaces, <open spaces by function>, transportation spaces) (AAT)

	carriage (vehicle) [300185335]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), land vehicles, <land vehicles by form>, freewheeled vehicles, <freewheeled vehicles by form or function>, passenger vehicles) (AAT)

	Louveciennes [7009311]
	.....(Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left, "Louveciennes route de St G./ Versailles 1871"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Louveciennes, Route de Saint-Germain	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Louveciennes, Route to Saint-Germain	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)