Upper Norwood, London, 1871 Camille Jacob Pissarro (1830-1903)

We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.

We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.

High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Camille Jacob Pissarro also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-9 weeks to complete the process.

In case the delivery date needs to be extended in time, or we are overloaded with requests, there will be an email sent to you sharing the new timelines of production and delivery.

TOPofART wants to remind you to keep patient, in order to get you the highest quality, being our mission to fulfill your expectations.

We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
Also, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.
Additionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.

You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.

Once the painting Upper Norwood, London is ready and dry, it will be shipped to your delivery address. The canvas will be rolled-up in a secure postal tube.

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The paintings we create are only of museum quality. Our academy graduated artists will never allow a compromise in the quality and detail of the ordered painting. TOPofART do not work, and will never allow ourselves to work with low quality studios from the Far East. We are based in Europe, and quality is our highest priority.

In Camille Pissarro's "Upper Norwood, London, 1871," we encounter a quiet countryside scene that feels like a pause in the heartbeat of time. It's a landscape that hums with soft greens and blues, a palette that Pissarro commands with the ease of a poet writing a pastoral ode. The sky is an open expanse - pale and weightless - holding together the upper part of the canvas with a tranquility that balances the buzzing activity of the earth below.

At the forefront, trees stretch upwards, their leaves lightly dappling in the sunlight. Pissarro uses delicate strokes here, giving the foliage a shimmering quality. These trees, tall and confident, frame the scene like natural pillars, inviting the viewer's eye deeper into the rolling hills behind. The distant spires and rooftops rise gently from the horizon, peeking out like reserved observers from behind a curtain of trees. It's almost as if the city beyond is a quiet memory, gently hinted at but never overwhelming.

What truly charms here is Pissarro's technique. There’s a looseness to his brushwork that suggests immediacy, yet each stroke feels intentional. He layers the greenery in varying shades - mossy and sun-drenched greens mingling with the muted, shadowy undercurrents of the trees. The composition sweeps from left to right, leading us naturally along a soft, winding path where a few horses graze in the distance - their forms so simple yet so telling of the pastoral quietness.

It’s an image where nothing is hurried. Pissarro isn’t chasing grand gestures or dramatic contrasts. Instead, he captures the unremarkable beauty of a quiet summer afternoon with an intimate, almost wistful, tenderness.