Jerusalem Size:large Pissarro painted relatively few still

Pissarro painted relatively few still lifes

fixing a central vanishing point

in places extremely quickly

Eight views of Omi

while this painting could have been made for a different patron

Jerusalem Size:large Pissarro painted relatively few stillLear visited Palestine in 1858, and spent a fortnight making careful studies of Jerusalem from the surrounding hills. These formed the basis for five paintings, of which this is the largest and most magnificent. It was made for Samuel Price Edwards, a close friend, on his retirement from the Customs at Liverpool in 1865. The view is dominated by the Temple Mount with the Dome of the Rock, and the Mount of Olives to the left.