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Camille Pissarro · 1893
Camille Pissarro: 1830–1903
Other names (8)
Camille-Abraham-Jacob Pissarro, Camille Jacob Pissaro, Camille Jacob Pissarro, Camillo Pissarro, C. Pissaro, C. Pissarro, Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro, Pissaro
Biography
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French: [kamij pisaʁo]; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint 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". Paul 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 Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste 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. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
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Influenced by
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- Maurice Utrilloeditorial inference
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- Paul Gauguineditorial inference
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- Lucien Pissarroeditorial inference
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- Vincent van Goghdocumented
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Pissarro helped Van Gogh develop a brighter palette and use complementary colours. The cited museum text was read and supports this relationship.
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Camille Pissarro. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art66 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art53 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago50 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art27 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art6 recorded works
- musée Tavet Delacour — Pontoise6 recorded works
- National Gallery6 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)6 recorded works
- Tate6 recorded works
- MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux4 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris4 recorded works
- Musée Marmottan Monet4 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble2 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen2 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay2 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre2 recorded works
- Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza2 recorded works
- Walters Art Museum2 recorded works
- A. G. Leventis Gallery1 recorded work
- Albertina1 recorded work
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lyon1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Vannes1 recorded work
- musée Richard Anacréon — Granville1 recorded work
- Museum Ordrupgaard1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Victoria1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- National Museum Cardiff1 recorded work
- Neue Pinakothek — Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Scottish National Gallery1 recorded work
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe1 recorded work
- Van Gogh Museum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Tate Collection metadata (October 2014 snapshot)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The National Gallery, London
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
