Camille Pissarro - The talk 1892

The talk 1892
The talk
1892 89x116cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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Mary Cassatt 1844–1926. American painter and printmaker who was part of the group of Impressionists working in and around Paris. She took as her subjects almost exclusively women and children. ArtsViewer.com

From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
By virtue of their size, placement, and quiet dignity, these youthful laborers dominate the landscape setting—an open field near Pissarro’s house at Éragny. Sympathetic to anarchist ideals, the artist wanted to preserve the values of agrarian society that were being threatened by the rapid industrialization of France. He began this picture in summer 1891 and completed it in mid-January 1892, a month before the opening of a major exhibition of his work organized by his dealer Joseph Durand-Ruel. Many of the fifty paintings were sold from the show, but Pissarro kept this canvas and gave it to his wife.