Detail of Steamboats in the Port of Rouen by Pissarro in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Title: Steamboats in the Port of Rouen

Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)

Date: 1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 21 1/2 in. (45.7 x 54.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Arthur J. Neumark, 1958

Accession Number: 58.133

On January 20, 1896, when Pissarro arrived for his second extended stay in Rouen, he was already enraptured by "the beautiful motifs of the quays, which will make famous paintings." This is one of several views of the busy port that he painted from the window of his room at the Hôtel de Paris. Across the river in the background may be seen the wharves and warehouses of the working-class Saint-Sever district.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437309