Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny is an oil on canvas painting created by Camille Pissarro in 1899. This atmospheric work captures the pastoral landscape surrounding the artist's home in Eragny-sur-Epte, where Pissarro lived and painted extensively during his later career, producing some of his most dedicated series studies.

The painting depicts a typical rural scene characterized by several large haystacks clustered in a field under the delicate, diffused light of early morning. Pissarro utilizes a subtle palette dominated by cool blues, greens, and soft pinks to convey the damp, hazy quality of the dawning day. The arrangement of the haystacks creates strong forms against the open space of the field and the low horizon. Unlike some of his intensely analytical, short-lived experiments with Neo-Impressionism in the 1880s, this piece showcases a return to the looser, more immediate brushwork and overall compositional freedom associated with his mature Impressionist style, emphasizing the fleeting visual and atmospheric effects on the topography.

As one of the foundational figures of the Impressionist movement, Pissarro consistently explored the themes of agricultural life, seasonal change, and the effects of sunlight across rural settings. His repeated focus on subjects like haystacks places him in dialogue with contemporaries, illustrating the shared late-century interest in serial depiction.

This significant canvas is held within the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Because of its institutional standing and importance in the history of modern French art, high-resolution imagery and fine art prints of this work are often made widely accessible through public domain collections, facilitating broader study of Pissarro’s continued mastery of the landscape genre at the turn of the century.