Camille Jacob 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 (1870-71),
he lived in England and made a study of English art, particularly
Camille Pissarro the landscapes of Joseph Mallord William Turner. For a time in the
(1830-1903) 1880s Pissarro, discouraged with his work, experimented with
pointillism; the new style, however, proved unpopular with collectors and dealers,
and he returned to 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),ny works hang in the Luxembourg Gallery, 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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The Hermitage at Pontoise, 1867
Louveciennes:
The Road to Versailles, 1870
Orchard in Bloom at Louveciennes, 1872
The Railway Bridge at Pontoise, 1873
Self-Portrait, 1873
Gelee Blanche (Hoarfrost), 1873
Sunlight on the Road- Pontoise, 1874
La Côte des Boeufs,
the Hermitage, 1877
Kitchen Garden with Trees in Flower, Pontoise, 1877
Resting in the Woods
at Pontoise, 1878
Portrait of Madame Pissarro
Sewing near a Window,
1878-79
The Pork Butcher, 1883
Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte, 1888
Hyde Park, London, 1890
Sunset at St. Charles, Eragny,
1891
Kew, the Path to the Main Conservatory, 1892
Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Eragny-Sur-Epte, 1895
Washerwomen, Eragny-sur-Epte, 1895
Girl Sewing, 1895
The Old Market at Rouen, 1898
The Artist's Garden at Eragny, 1898