Camille Pissarro (Danish-French, 1830-1903): The Red Roofs, a Corner of a Village, Winter Effect, 1877 (Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay) - The Red Roofs, Corner of a Village, Winter Effect is a relatively small canvas… In this painting we see a small cluster of houses through the trees of an orchard. The buildings appear to be the subject of the painting, but the cobweb of trunks and branches stops the eye from resting on them for a second at a time. They physically block our view. Rather than being able clearly to look through and see the houses, our eye skids across the surface of the composition…