''La Petite Fabrique'' (''The Little

Factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

'') is an

oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...

canvas Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags ...

by the

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artist

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...

. The small work is thought to have been painted between 1862 and 1865. It was presented to the

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

museum by the ''Société des amis des musées de la ville de Strasbourg'' (today called the ''Société des amis des arts et des musées de Strasbourg'', or SAAMS) in 1924 and is now in the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain. Its inventory number is 55.974.0.684. ''La Petite Fabrique'' marks a transition in Pissarro's work, away from Neoclassical landscape depictions à la

Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast o ...

and towards

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with underlying social motives. In spite of its peacefulness and nonthreatening size, the little factory announces the inexorable transformation (i. e.

industrialisation Industrialisation ( alternatively spelled industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organisation of an econo ...

) of the countryside.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petite Fabrique, La Paintings in the collection of the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Paintings by Camille Pissarro 1860s paintings Landscape paintings Oil on canvas paintings