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Camille Pissarro, Gelée
blanche (Hoarfrost), 1874
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Then, very quietly, with my most
naive air, I led him before the Ploughed Field of M. Pissarro. At the sight of
this astounding landscape, the good man thought that the lenses of his
spectacles were dirty. He wiped them carefully and replaced them on his nose.
"By Michalon!"
he cried. "What on earth is that?"
"You see ... a hoarfrost on
deeply ploughed furrows."
"Those furrows? That frost?
But they are palette-scrapings placed uniformly on a dirty canvas. It has
neither head nor tail, top nor bottom, front nor back."
"Perhaps ... but the
impression is there."
"Well, it's a funny
impression!
Louis
Leroy’s review of Exhibition of the Impressionists,
published in Le
Charivari, 25
April 1874; Leroy's article took the form of a dialogue between two sceptical
viewers of the work.
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