Dulwich College, Londra

Pissarro did not choose to be in London. In 1870 Prussian troops occupied his house outside Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, and the family fled to England, settling in the southern suburb of Norwood, near where his mother was living. He spent the exile painting what was around him, and one of those things was this: Dulwich College, a boarding school whose grand new building had opened only in 1870, still crisp and raw against the open ground. Pissarro renders it plainly, a long range of Victorian brick under a wide English sky, with a pond and a few small figures below. The London stay was not wasted. It was there he met the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who would go on selling his work for the rest of his life.