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Camille Pissarro (France) 1830- |  ARTIST PROFILE
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 (see Impressionism). 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 (see Neoimpressionism); 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 C?zanne, 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 Mus?e 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).
"Pissarro, Camille Jacob," Microsoft® Encarta®
Online Encyclopedia 2001
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 | | Title: | Harvest at Montfoucault | | Medium: | 1876, dimensions 65?92cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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 | | Title: | La Cote des Boeufs at the Hermitage | | Medium: | 1877, dimensions 114?87cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | National Gallery, London | |
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 | | Title: | Landscape at Chaponval | | Medium: | 1880, dimensions 54?65cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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 | | Title: | Rye Fields at Pontoise | | Medium: | 1877, dimensions 60?73cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Private collection | |
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 | | Title: | The Hermitage at Pontoise | | Medium: | 1874, dimensions 61?81cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Oskar Reinhart Museum | |
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 | | Title: | The Mailcoach | | Medium: | 1877, dimensions 46?55cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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 | | Title: | The Mailcoach at Louveciennes | | Medium: | 1870, dimensions 25?35cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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 | | Title: | The Red Roofs | | Medium: | 1877, dimensions 54?65cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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 | | Title: | The Road from Versailles | | Medium: | 1870, dimensions 100?81cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Foundation E.G. B?hrle | |
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