Pissaro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather

Port Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather is an 1896 painting by Camille  Pissaro in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. It is one of a series of painting Pissarro spent time in Reuen in 1896 seeking to paint the industrial modernity of the area. He had earlier made a trip in 1883, and did one series  of images of the city then. On his 1896 he stayed at the Hotel de Paris in Rouen, form January to April 1896, and it is in this period that his painting was made. His room overlooked the Seine. and it is from this vantage point that it is painted.