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Jacob Camille Pissarro, Veu de Rouen, Cours-la-Reine, 1884
Etching and drypoint
On loan from Joan and Robert Schaupp ’51
Jacob Camille Pissarro was born in 1830 in Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies. At the age of 17 he met Danish painter Fritz Melbye and went to work in his studio in Venezuela. By 1855 Pissarro had moved to Paris where he was first introduced to the 19th–century French painters. Seeing their work at Paris’ Universal Exposition he was hugely influenced by members of the Barbizon school, such as J. B. C. Corot, J. F. Millet and Theodore Rousseau. From this group he was taught to paint from nature. Inspired, he attended private classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1856. It was here he made connections with the artists who founded the Impressionist movement: Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Armand Guillaumin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Pissarro is major figure in the Impressionist movement. He often wrote and espoused ideas against government-sponsored art and promoted a new art and a desire for private exhibitions. His theories helped form the Impressionist movement—he was the only artist to show his work in all eight Impressionist group exhibitions. Like the other Impressionists, Pissarro worked to record the modern world and capture transient effects of light and color. His art focuses on texture, tone and high-keyed color, and he often depicted rural subjects. Throughout his artistic career Pissarro continued to be influenced by the artists around him and experimented with different techniques such as those employed by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and the Neo-Impressionists.
Jacob Camille Pissarro, Veu de Rouen, Cours-la-Reine, 1884
Etching and drypoint
On loan from Joan and Robert Schaupp ’51
Jacob Camille Pissarro was born in 1830 in Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies. At the age of 17 he met Danish painter Fritz Melbye and went to work in his studio in Venezuela. By 1855 Pissarro had moved to Paris where he was first introduced to the 19th–century French painters. Seeing their work at Paris’ Universal Exposition he was hugely influenced by members of the Barbizon school, such as J. B. C. Corot, J. F. Millet and Theodore Rousseau. From this group he was taught to paint from nature. Inspired, he attended private classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1856. It was here he made connections with the artists who founded the Impressionist movement: Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Armand Guillaumin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Pissarro is major figure in the Impressionist movement. He often wrote and espoused ideas against government-sponsored art and promoted a new art and a desire for private exhibitions. His theories helped form the Impressionist movement—he was the only artist to show his work in all eight Impressionist group exhibitions. Like the other Impressionists, Pissarro worked to record the modern world and capture transient effects of light and color. His art focuses on texture, tone and high-keyed color, and he often depicted rural subjects. Throughout his artistic career Pissarro continued to be influenced by the artists around him and experimented with different techniques such as those employed by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and the Neo-Impressionists.