Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro painted this farm worker on concrete, an unusual surface. We do not know why he chose this material. Perhaps he wanted to copy the fresco technique, where artists paint directly onto wet plaster. Like frescoes, this painting uses light colours on a pale background. But concrete p...

This is one of 12 surviving pictures that Camille Pissarro made while in self-imposed exile in south London from late 1870 to mid-1871 during the Franco-Prussian war. Perhaps the first picture he painted while in London, it is one of the more rural scenes of the group and is similar to landscapes...

In 1884 Pissarro settled with his family in the village of Eragny. He painted a number of views of this meadow which is planted with small trees still surrounded by their protective cages. It is late afternoon and the long shadows thrown by the trees radiate out in a fan shape towards the left co...

This unsparing image shows the thickset figure of Cezanne. He sits in an upright chair and does not look at all comfortable. His face is weathered. His mouth is invisible under the tobacco-stained moustache and beard. Cezanne wears the garments of an artist working outdoors. He stares at somethin...

Camille Pissarro subtly captures the gawky shyness of his seven-year-old son, Félix-Camille (1874–1897). The young boy looks slightly anxiously away from us in this three-quarter view. He seems to be withdrawing behind his curtain of long hair, peering uncertainly from beneath his fringe. Hunchin...

This is one of 12 pictures that Pissarro painted while in self-imposed exile in London from 1870 to 1871 during the Franco-Prussian war. The Avenue was a wide, tree-lined street in Sydenham, a fashionable semi-rural suburb near Crystal Palace in south London. The location can be identified today...

This is one of 14 views of the Boulevard Montmartre in Paris that Camille Pissarro painted in 1897. These include the boulevard seen in snow, rain, fog, mist and sunlight, and in the morning, afternoon, at sunset and at night. The picture is the only example of a night painting by Pissarro.Pissar...

This wooded hillside, called the Côte des Bœufs, was close to Pissarro’s home in the hamlet of L’Hermitage, near the market town of Pontoise, where he lived for most of the time between 1866 and 1883.Although Pissarro was a leading Impressionist, this painting signals his move away from the fleet...

We are in the dining room of a family house, looking down on the scene from a standing position. An unfinished cup of tea sits on the table in front of us. The chairs are pulled back to allow the maid to sweep the floor. A small child in a highchair looks up while feeding himself. The day-to-day...

In his later years, Pissarro painted several series of paintings based upon views of Paris. Each series was dedicated to a specific location in the city painted at various times of the day and during different seasons and weather conditions. This wintry scene, probably created in the early months...

This painting is set in the main square of the town of Pontoise, a few kilometres to the north-west of Paris. Pissarro had moved to the nearby village of Osny the year before. He often visited the weekly market. At this time he was moving away from pure landscape painting, where figures were incl...

Pissarro and his family moved to Louveciennes in the spring of 1869, and he may have painted this picture shortly afterwards, or possibly in the spring of 1870. Only 30 minutes west of Paris by train, Louveciennes was an important location for early Impressionism, as it was one of the small towns...