村の通り。ルーヴシエンヌ

Pissarro painted this quiet street in Louveciennes in 1871, the year he came home from the war. A Danish citizen, he could not enlist, so when the Prussian army advanced in 1870 he fled, first to safety nearby and then to London. He returned in June 1871 to find that his house had been used as a billet by Prussian soldiers, who had ruined it and destroyed a great many of the canvases he had left behind, much of the work of his early career. Then he simply began again, walking out into the same village lanes. This street of ordinary houses and figures is one of more than 70 Louveciennes views he made before leaving the following year.