Chestnut Vendor, St. Martin's Day Fair (Pontoise)

Chestnut Vendor, St. Martin's Day Fair (Pontoise) — Camille Pissarro. 1878.

Medium: drypoint. Dimensions: Image: 19.8 x 15.1 cm (7 13/16 x 5 15/16 in.); Plate: 21.1 x 16.3 cm (8 5/16 x 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 43.4 x 30.2 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Pissarro was essentially a landscape artist, and the majority of his prints were landscapes with peasant figures. These images never showed workers exhausted by their labors, for Pissarro was primarily interested in conveying the pleasantness of the countryside and simple, rural life. In this scene of the chestnut vendor, the placing of figures in the foreground reflects the flat design and two-dimensional concept of space characteristic of the Japanese art that was influencing many French artists at the time.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.