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Camille Pissarro
Shepherds in the Fields with Rainbow1885

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
Fan-shaped pastel drawing of two shepherds with a large flock of sheep in a flat rural landscape, a conical haystack in the distance and a soft rainbow arching across an overcast sky
Pastel fan design in semicircular format with gold border; rural landscape with two shepherds in peasant dress standing at left beside a dog, a large flock of sheep at right, a haystack and tree line in the middle distance, and a rainbow arching across a hazy sky; loose, broken brushwork throughout

Camille Pissarro, Shepherds in the Fields with Rainbow, 1885, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Arnold S. Kirkeby, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Camille Pissarro
West Indies, active France, 1830-1903
Title
Shepherds in the Fields with Rainbow
Place Made
France
Date Made
1885
Medium
Gouache and pastel on silk
Dimensions
Frame: 18 3/4 × 32 × 2 in. (47.63 × 81.28 × 5.08 cm) Mat: 14 5/8 × 27 5/8 in. (37.15 × 70.17 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 × 24 3/4 in. (29.53 × 62.87 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Arnold S. Kirkeby
Accession Number
57.64
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Davis, Bruce. Master Drawings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stevens, Matthew, ed. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York : Distributed by Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

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