''Bath Road, London'' is an 1897 Impressionist painting by the French 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 St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). ...

with a scene of the new

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of Bedford Park near

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, noted for its distinctive Queen Anne Revival architecture. It depicts the view from 62 Bath Road where the artist's son

Lucien Pissarro Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a French landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver, designer, and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also ...

had moved with his family the previous year. The woman and child playing in the front garden are Lucien's wife

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and daughter Orovida. At this time Camille had returned to a more orthodox form of impressionism. Today it is on the collection of the

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.https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/item/ash-object-373347

References

Bibliography

* Bann, Stephen. ''Art of the Garden: The Garden in British Art, 1800 to the Present Day''. Tate Publishing, 2004. * McConkey, Kenneth. ''Impressionism in Britain''. Yale University Press, 1995. * Reed, Nicholas. ''Pissarro in West London: (Kew, Chiswick and Richmond)''. Lilburne Press, 1997. 1897 paintings Paintings by Camille Pissarro Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum London in art Paintings of children {{1890s-painting-stub