, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Haymakers of Éragny, 1897
Camille Pissarro
Danish, French, 1830
- 1903
etching and aquatint with plate tone on buff laid paper
31.3 x 23.9 cm irregular; plate: 20.3 x 15.2 cm irregular
Purchased 1964
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15146)
In his late paintings and prints Pissarro often dealt with the figure of the farming peasant in a landscape. The classic calm of this pose transforms an otherwise mundane scene into one symbolic of the universal theme of the labours of the seasons.
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