Le verger (The Orchard), 1872, Oil on linen, National Gallery of
Art, Washington.
Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.
-Camille Pissarro
Pissarro, Camille Jacob (1830-1903),
Camille Pissarro
was a French impressionist painter, whose friendship and support provided
encouragement for many younger painters. Pissarro was born in Saint Thomas,
Virgin Islands, and moved to Paris in 1855, where he studied with the French
landscape painter Camille Corot. At first associated with the Barbizon
school, Pissarro subsequently joined the impressionists and was represented
in all their exhibitions. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), he
lived in England and made a study of English art, particularly the landscapes
of Joseph Mallord William Turner. For a time in the 1880s Pissarro, discouraged
with his work, experimented with pointillism; the new style, however, proved
unpopular with collectors and dealers, and he returned to what he found
to be a freer impressionist style.
A painter
of sunshine and the scintillating play of light, Pissarro produced many
quiet rural landscapes and river scenes. He also painted street scenes
in Paris, Le Havre, and London. An excellent teacher, he counted among
his pupils and associates the French painters Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne,
his son Lucien Pissarro, and the American impressionist Mary Cassatt. Of
Pissarro's great output (including paintings, watercolors, and graphics),
many works hang in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and in the leading
galleries of Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, has
his Bather in the Woods (1895).
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Le verger (The Orchard), 1872, Oil on linen, National Gallery of
Art, Washington.
Gelee blanche (Hoarfrost), 1873, Oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay,
Paris.
Les chataigniers a Osny (The Chestnut Trees at Osny), c. 1873, Oil
on canvas, Private collection, New Jersey.
Red Roofs, 1877, Oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
The Shepherdess (Young Peasant Girl with a Stick), 1881, Oil on
canvas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte, 1888, Dallas Museum of Art.
Haymakers Resting, 1891, Oil on canvas, McNay Art Institute, San
Antonio, TX.
Two Young Peasant Women, 1892, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York.
Countryside & Eragny Church and Farm, 1895, Musée d'Orsay,
Paris.
Boulevard Montmartre: Night, 1897, Oil on canvas, National Gallery,
London.
Boulevard Montmartre: Rainy Weather, Afternoon, 1897, Oil
on canvas, Private collection.
Avenue de l'Opera, Place du Theatre Francais: Misty Weather, 1898,
Oil on canvas, Private collection, New York.
Avenue de l'Opera: Morning Sunshine, 1898, Oil on canvas, Private
collection, Philadelphia.
La Foire a Dieppe, matin, soleil (The Fair in Dieppe, Sunny Morning),
Oil
on canvas, Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf.
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