“Landscape with Tall Trees”
Today, we have one of Gauguin’s earlier paintings…
“Landscape with Tall Trees” sometimes known as “Poplar-Lined Lane, Osny” is an oil on canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist, Paul Gauguin, from 1883.
Gauguin painted this piece early in his career. It had been just one year since he had just quit his job as a stockbroker to pursue his art full time. This painting was done in an impressionist style, before Gauguin developed his own unique painting style.
Camille Pissarro, the impressionist painter, was a mentor to Gauguin. Gauguin would visit the elder artist in his hometown. At this time, Pissarro lived in Osny, a suburb in the northwest of Paris, France. The two artists would often paint the same scenes together, this scene being an example. Pissarro’s version is the magnificent “Landscape from the Pontoise Area, Peasant Walking along a Path”, from 1878.
“Landscape with Tall Trees” is currently in the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more on Paul Gauguin, please visit his short biography here.
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