Poppy Field 1873

Coquelicots · 罂粟花田

A field of poppies near Argenteuil, with a woman and child in the foreground and the same pair repeated further up the slope. The repetition reads almost like a film cut, and it is one of the earliest pictures to treat a landscape as a passing moment rather than a place.

Reference articles

• About the work

  Poppy Field — About the work

• The story behind it

  Poppy Field — The story behind it

• Technique and colour

  Poppy Field — Technique and colour

• Living with the print

  Poppy Field — Living with the print