Landscape with Washerwomen near Crozant

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Landscape with Washerwomen near Crozant
ca. 1894-1895
Armand Guillaumin

Two women are doing their washing on the edge of a tarn. Their figures are treated in the same way as the landscape by means of dabs of color, so they are hardly discernible in the landscape and completely integrated in it. The landscape is painted in lively colours with strong brush strokes in a wide range of intensive tones which is typical of Armand Guillaumin, a somewhat neglected French impressionist.

The scene is the surroundings of Crozant, a small place near the mouth of two rivers - the Creuse and the Sédelle on the northwest flanks of the French Central Massif, a few kilometres from the main Paris-Bordeaux railway.