Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

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.