Jalais Hill, Pontoise Art Print - Camille Pissarro sea fibrous paper—used to line carpets—that

fibrous paper—used to line carpets—that approximated both the textural qualities of canvas and the conventional half-tone gray or brown grounds on which painters traditionally applied their colors

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and adapted the wild beasts from popular ethnographic journals and illustrated children's books

He based the exotic vegetation of his many jungle pictures on studies that he made in Paris’s botanical gardens

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Jalais Hill, Pontoise Art Print - Camille Pissarro sea fibrous paper—used to line carpets—thatAbout the Art: This view of Pontoise, just northwest of Paris, helped establish Pissarros reputation as an innovative painter of the rural French landscape. The critic mile Zola praised the picture enthusiastically when it was shown along with another rustic scene at the Salon of 1868, writing, "This is the modern countryside. One feels that man has passed by, turning and cutting the earth. . . . And this little valley, this hill have a heroic