Detail of Haystacks, Morning, Eragny by Pissarro in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Title: Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)

Date: 1899

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25 x 31 1/2 in. (63.5 x 80 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Douglas Dillon, 2003

Object Number: 2004.359

Curatorial Department: European Paintings

Made the same year as Pissarro’s bird’s-eye views of the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, this idyllic scene of a meadow near the artist’s home in rural Eragny is a counterpoint to his paintings of modern urban life. Pissarro depicted the same trio of haystacks, seen from a slightly different vantage point, and under afternoon rather than morning light (private collection), a practice recalling Monet’s Haystacks series of the early 1890s.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438738