Camille Pissarro was born in the U.S Virgin Islands in 1830.
He helped establish the group of 'Impressionist' painters in Paris and became a pivotal figure in holding the group together. He had a warm and kind personality; Paul Cezanne described him as a 'father figure' and Renior described his work as 'revolutionary'.
In the latter part of his career his observation of light became more intense as he moved away from countryside scenes with sky and water taking on a new importance in his work.
Painted in the year of his death this image captures a winter's day in a soft warm light.
The scene was observed from the second floor of a house on Place Dauphine where he made around thirty canvases between 1900 and 1903. The view shows in the foreground the end of the Square du Vert-Galant, the Seine crossed by the Pont des Arts and the Louvre in the distance.