Jerusalem Size:large Pissarro painted relatively few still

Pissarro painted relatively few still lifes

Eight views of Omi

in places extremely quickly

inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals

He may have spent some time in Antwerp as his work seems to depend on the example of the Antwerp artist

Jerusalem Size:large Pissarro painted relatively few stillLear visited Palestine in 1858, and spent a fortnight making careful studies of Jerusalem from the surrounding hills. These formed the basis for five paintings, of which this is the largest and most magnificent. It was made for Samuel Price Edwards, a close friend, on his retirement from the Customs at Liverpool in 1865. The view is dominated by the Temple Mount with the Dome of the Rock, and the Mount of Olives to the left.