Large scroll views of paintings by pissarro

Selection of paintings by the Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). Click to expand the images and see the details !

Early years 1850s, 1860s

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  1. Fritz Melby and Pissarro in their atelier in Carracas (1854) : 22 year old Pissarro with artist friend Fritz Melby, at the starting point of his painting carreer.
  2. Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas (1856) : A painting of St. Thomas an island in the Caribbean . This is Pissarro’s impression of the place where he was born.
  3. Landscape with Farmhouses and Palm Trees (1856) : This place is hot. That’s the impression you get from this painting.
  4. The Marne at Chennevières (1864/1865) : Blue sky, blue water. Placid view of the river Marne, a tributary of the Seine river, located southeast of Paris (France).
  5. The Banks of the Marne in Winter (1866) : Grey sky, dark mountain. Winter view of the river Marne, a tributary of the Seine river, located southeast of Paris (France).
  6. Jalais Hill, Pontoise (1867) : Harmony of green field and blue sky. A scene at Pontoise, northwest of Paris. Pissarro lived here for a long time.

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1870s (the impressionist style)

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  1. Houses at Bougival (Autumn) (1870) : Painting of peasants working near Pissarro’s house. Impressionist style.
  2. Louveciennes, Route de Saint-Germain (1871) : Impressionist “plein air (open air)” painting which captures the vibrancy of the environment well.
  3. Banks of the Seine at Port Marly (1871) : Impressionist painters often came here to paint the play of light on the water of the river Seine.
  4. A View of L’Hermitage, near Pontoise (1874) : Painting of the village Pontoise where Pissarro lived 1866 – 1883.
  5. The Great Walnut Tree, the ‘Rondest House’, Pontoise (1875) : Critics said this painting was sketchy and incomplete but this was the Impressionist way.
  6. Red roofs, corner of a village, winter (1877) : This was presented at the third impressionist exhibition in 1877.
1980s (adding to the impressionist style)

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  1. Conversation (1881) : Pissarro featured people prominantly in this painting. A break from impressionism. What are they talking about? You can only wonder.
  2. The Harvest (1882) : Peasants in Pontoise harvesting. They are a hard working group. Pissarro loved these scenes.
  3. The banks of the Viosne at Osny in grey weather, winter (1883) : In 1882, Pissarro and familly moved from Pontoise to nearby Osny.
  4. Field and Mill at Osny (1884) : Osny countryside.
  5. Poultry Market at Gisors (1885) : Gisors is a meeting place in Normandy north-west of Paris. People are bustling.
  6. Apple Picking (1886) : Pissarro met painter Georges Seurat the inventor the “pointillism” technique at about this time. Maybe he was influenced by Seurat.
  7. La Récolte des Foins, Éragny (1887) : The influence of “pointillism” is evident in this painting. “Pointillism” adds vibrancy to the painting. Pissarro lived with his family in Éragny from 1884 until he died in 1903.
  8. Peasants’ houses, Eragny (1887) : Pissarro uses “pointillism” to the full in this painting.
1890s, 1900s (the grand master, master of all styles)

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  1. Autumn, Poplars, Eragny (1894) : Vibrant autumn colors in impressionist style.
  2. Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Eragny-sur-Epte (1895) : The sense of tranquility is deafening. A woman with two buckets working silently in the winter cold.
  3. Morning Sunlight Effect, Eragny (1899) An impressionist style painting in the last stages of Pissarro’s life.
  4. Hay Harvest at Éragny (1901) : Pissarro’s focus in on the five women working the field. The fields are just part of the background.
  5. The Pont-Neuf (1902) : This was painted from the window of an apartment. The Paris landscape was a lifelong passion for Pissarro.
Camille Pissarro and wife Julie Vellay in 1877 at Pontoise where he lived from 1866 to 1883

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was born in 1830 on the island of St. Thomas to Frederick Abraham Gabriel Pissarro. His father was a French merchant of Jewish descent and his mother was from a French-Jewish family. He was sent to school in France when he was 12 and got grounding in painting there. When he was 16-17 he returned to St. Thomas and was set to work as a clerk in his father’s bussiness. However he practiced painting in his spare time. When Pissarro was 21, Danish artist Fritz Melbye inspired him to become a full-time artist and became his tutor. Pissarro left his family and with Melbye spent 2 years working as an artist in Caracas. Then in 1855 Pissarro returned to Paris and worked as assistant to Melbye’s brother. Also he received instruction from Corot, the famous French landscape painter. He and Corot shared a love of rural scenes painted from nature. This was the start of “plein air” painting by Pissarro. At that time, the Salon was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1859 his first painting was accepted.  

In 1873 when he was 43, he helped establish a collective society of 15 artists. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro etc.. They wanted an alternative to the Salon to display their own unique styles. This was the start of the Impressionists. In 1874, they held their first ‘Impressionist’ Exhibition. Critics were shocked. The subject was “vulgar” and “commonplace”. Just scenes of ordinary people going about their everyday lives. For example, Pissarro showed muddy, dirty, and unkempt environments. This was not the idealized world of mythology or pictures of people of godlike beauty. Also the manner of painting was sketchy and looked incomplete.

In 1885, Pissarro met Georges Seurat, the French post-Impressionist painter. Seurat was working with small patches of pure colors that together created the illusion of normal color or shade when viewed from a distance. This is called pointillism. Pissarro absorbed this technique and exhibited some paintings in the 1886 Impressionist Exhibition. Thus Pissarro showed the capacity to learn someting new even when he was in his 50s. However after some time he turned away from this. In his later years his paintings included both the styles of impressionism and pointillism as appropriate.

Pissarro died in Paris in November 1903. He had seven children. Six of them became painters like their father.

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