Vegetable Market at Pontoise

Throughout his career, Camille Pissaro depicted scenes of rural life and sociability such as this view of a market day in the village of Pontoise in the northwestern suburbs of Paris. The intimacy of rural and suburban forms of community seen in this print contrast sharply with the anonymity of bustling Parisian crowds in Pissarro’s painting of le Pont Neuf (AMAM 1941.49) or the alienation increasingly associated at the time with urban living.