Camille Pissarro A Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist Painter
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Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 — 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the “pivotal” figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “dean of the Impressionist painters”, not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also “by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality”. Cézanne said “he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord,” and he was also one of Gauguin’s masters. Renoir referred to his work as “revolutionary”, through his artistic portrayals of the “common man”, as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without “artifice or grandeur”.

Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. As a stylistic forerunner of Impressionism, he is today considered a “father figure not only to the Impressionists” but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Paintings by Camille Pissarro

Le chemin, c. 1864
Jallais Hill, Pontoise 1867, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Woods at Marly, 1871, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Old Chelsea Bridge, London 1871, Smith College Museum of Arts
The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise 1873, Indianapolis Museum of Art
The garden of Pontoise, 1875
The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage, 1877
Washerwoman, Study, 1880
Conversation, c. 1881
The Harvest, 1882, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
The Church at Eragny, 1884, Walters Art Museum
The House of the Deaf Woman and the Belfry at Eragny, 1886, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Children on a Farm, 1887
Haying at Eragny, 1889
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boulevard Montmartre, 1897
Boulevard Montmartre la nuit, 1898
Avenue de l’Opera, Paris, 1898
View of Rouen, 1898, Honolulu Museum of Art
Morning, Winter Sunshine, Frost, the Pont-Neuf, the Seine, the Louvre, Soleil D’hiver Gella Blanc, c. 1901, Honolulu Museum of Art
Hay Harvest at Éragny, 1901, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Self-portrait, 1903, Tate Gallery, London