Marché à Pontoise Les faneuses Bûcheronnes, groupe de paysannes Paysans portant du foin Travailleurs dans les champs This is one of Pissarro's masterpieces of engraved art. This magnificent plate was drawn and engraved on zinc in the spring of 1895 and then later printed in heliogravure to illustrate the history of engraving in France. This is the most beautiful market scene depicted by the artist. Pissarro loved such a crowd, such fervor. A happy and joyful crowd, aware of the value of the work that shows its fruits in the market, seen as a place of rich traditions. The difference between an ordinary day and the market day is highlighted, understood as a place of encounters, of the satisfactions of hard peasant labor, and as a place teeming with meetings between relatives or acquaintances within the village community. The vividness of the sketched features allows one to fully appreciate the movement of the scene, so that one almost seems to hear the hubbub of merchants and the buzz of the people. For Pissarro, the market is nothing but a pleasant metaphor for life itself. With this work Pissarro produced a panel of core importance within his oeuvre and in the field of graphic art about the rural world in general. He returned no less than 11 times to this theme, showing the importance of this subject for him. The works exhibited here - Les faneuses, Bûcheronnes, groupe de paysannes, Paysans portant du foin and Travailleurs dans les champs, made with his son Lucien - illustrate this theme well, focusing on the peasant world so beloved by Pissarro.