Sunset at Eragny

Pissarro moved to the tiny village of Eragny in 1884 and rented a house that he would eventually purchase with the help of Monet. The house, with a barn that he converted into a studio, would remain his base for the last twenty years of his life. More rural than Pontoise, his new surroundings were virtually unmarred by industrial development, and the nearby fields became Pissarro’s most frequently…