Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen

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Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen
French: Matin, Temps Gris, Rouen

Artist	Camille Pissarro
Year	1896
Subject	Boieldieu Bridge, Rouen
Dimensions	54.3 cm × 65.1 cm (21.4 in × 25.6 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen is a late 19th-century painting by Danish-French artist Camille Pissarro. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts the industrial cityscape of Rouen, France. The centerpiece of the painting is Boieldieu Bridge, a steel arch bridge which Pissarro painted from his room in a nearby hotel. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[1]

Pissarro had executed other paintings of the Boieldieu Bridge, in differing weather conditions, on a previous visit to Rouen earlier that year (1896).

Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather, 1896. (Art Gallery of Ontario)
Pont Boieldieu, Sunset, 1896.(Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK)
Pont Boieldieu, Sunset, Smoke, 1896. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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^ "metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-22.

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Paintings	List of paintings La Petite Fabrique (c. 1862–1865) The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise (1873) A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise (1874) Ploughed Fields (1874) Côte des Bœufs at L'Hermitage (1877) The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise, 1881) The House of the Deaf Woman and the Belfry at Eragny (1886) Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (1886) Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather (Le Pont Boieldieu à Rouen, temps mouillé, 1896) Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen (1896) Steamboats in the Port of Rouen (1896) Rue Saint-Honoré, dans l'après-midi. Effet de pluie (1897) Boulevard Montmartre, Mardi Gras (1897) Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps (1897) The Large Walnut Tree, Autumn Morning, Éragny (1897) The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon (1899) Hay Harvest at Éragny (1901) The Louvre, Foggy Morning (1901)
Family	Lucien Pissarro (son) Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro (son) Félix Pissarro (son) Paul-Émile Pissarro (son) Orovida Camille Pissarro (granddaughter) Claude Bonin-Pissarro (grandson) Hugues Claude Pissarro (grandson) Lélia Pissarro (great-granddaughter) Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro (great-grandson)
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