The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage [SEP] creator
The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage
The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. It was painted in 1877, and displayed the same year at an exhibition now generally referred to as the "third Impressionist exhibition". The picture is large by Pissarro's measure, and he described the effort of painting it as the ‘work of a benedictine’. Pissarro was proud of the painting, and it remained in his family's possession until 1913.
the artistic tensions native to the Impressionist school.
The same year Pissarro painted "The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage", his friend Paul Cézanne painted his "The Orchard, Côte Saint-Denis". The two artists had been friends for many years and had collaborated on a large number of works between 1865 and 1885. This Cézanne painting was also displayed, along with Pissarro's "Côte des Bœufs" and Renoir's "Bal" and other paintings, in the third gallery at the exhibition, but it was