Description:
In a letter of November 1894, Camille Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien that he wanted to send him a picture of “a little peasant girl dipping her feet in the water.” At the time, he considered the work almost finished but still lacking “that little something,” exclaiming optimistically, “I think I will get it, I feel it!” His continued ruminations on the composition may explain its heavily encrusted surface. After finishing it, he painted a variation featuring a nude (a rarity for the artist) in the same pose and setting, see below.
Elements of this painting’s landscape are reminding me of The Strid, a very dangerous section of the river Wharfe in the UK known for its incredibly high mortality rate for people who fall in. For me that’s lending this painting a much more ominous feeling than the artist intended, though I do love spooky shit, so still into it
Guess it’s not 100
This article was maddening for its lack of photos of the location itself.
Lol, fair enough, here you go