

| Date : 1879
Sizes : 116 cm x 89 cm Material : Oil on canvas Acquisition : On loan from a private collection
| Item 4 on 18 French Painting Painting
Area related Pontoise (France)
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This exceptionally large painting, with its countless small touches of color, is one of only two in Pissarro's career depicting a male peasant. The old man at work here is Père Melon, who lived near Pissarro at Pontoise.
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