“By the time of Pissarro’s fourth visit to Rouen in 1898, he was “already familiar with the motifs there.”… On August 19, he wrote to his son Lucien: “Yesterday I found an excellent place from which I can paint the rue de l’Epicerie and even the market, a really interesting one, which takes place every…
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Hauser: Mahler’s Symphony #5
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Camille Pissarro: Chemin de l’Écluse, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône
“Located some twenty-five miles northwest of Paris, Pontoise was built on a hilltop, with the river Oise passing through it, elements which made it a highly picturesque environment in which to paint en plein-air. The town’s economy included agriculture as well as industry, and offered Pissarro a wide range of subjects, from crowded semi-urban genre…
Pissarro: The Father of Impressionism
“Pissarro painted the present scene during the early fall of 1884, when some of the trees retained their green and others were ablaze in red, orange, and gold…The canvas depicts a small wash-house on the banks of the Epte at Bazincourt, where local women could launder their clothes…Unlike Pissarro’s well-known view of the wash-house at…
Camille Pissarro: Automne à Eragny
One of the most prominent avant-garde painters of his generation, Pissarro had achieved enormous success as both an Impressionist and a Neo-Impressionist painter. Adjusting certain elements from his classic Impressionist period of the 1870s, and combining them with characteristics of his Neo-Impressionist style of the 1880s, in the early 1890s Pissarro began developing a fresh…
James Taylor: Country Road
“Chemin de Pontoise, Auvers-sur-Oise depicts a sunny day in Pontoise, a bustling market town about twenty-five miles northwest of Paris where Pissarro lived in 1866-1868 and again from 1872-1882. The canvas was painted in 1876, at the apex of Pissarro’s career as an Impressionist landscape painter. Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel have described Pissarro’s work…
A Little Paganini and Pissarro
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Camille Pissarro: La cueillette des pommes
“In both of his versions of La cueillette des pommes, then, Pissarro was carefully constructing reality, augmenting it in order to be able to give a more profound sensation for the viewer, echoing Degas’ statement that, ‘Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see’ (quoted in R. Kendall, ed., Degas…
Camille Pissarro: Rue des Roches au Valhermeil
“The critic J.-K. Huysmans praised Pissarro’s approach, stating: ‘From close up [the painting] is like brickwork, a strange wrinkled [patchwork], a stew of colours of all kinds covering the canvas with lilac, Naples yellow, madder-red, and green; at a distance, it is the air that moves, it is the sky that is boundless, it is…
Andrea Bocelli: The Lord’s Prayer
“Pissarro and his family sailed to England in December 1870 to escape the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War. There they rented a small house in Upper Norwood. Referring to an oil painting with the same subject and date as the present gouache, Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts wrote, “Though Pissarro refers to it as…
Joseph Bologne’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major
Who Was Joseph Bologne? “Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (25 December 1745 – 9 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier. His historical significance lies in his distinctive background as a biracial free man of color. Bologne was the first classical composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in European music. He…
Rabindranath Tagore: Where The Mind Is Without Fear
“For Pissarro, the rural countryside represented the very antithesis to modern urban life. Indeed, in paintings such as La Charité the artist celebrates, as Robert Herbert suggested, “ideals of health, honest labor and dignity which he set against the pollution and degraded labor of the city” (Robert Herbert, “City vs. Country: The Rural Image in French Painting…
Camille Pissarro: La Gardeuse de chèvre (1881)
“Portrayals of local peasant life capture the rural charm of Pontoise, where Pissarro lived from 1866 until 1883. This location allowed Pissarro to separate himself from the influence of his predecessors, the established French landscape painters, and to depict an environment previously scarcely recorded by other masters.” READ FULL ESSAY: Sotheby’s See More Camille Pissarro…
Camille Pissarro: Harvest at Éragny (1901)
“In 1884 Pissarro and his family moved from Pontoise to Éragny on the River Epte. This would be his principal place of residence until his death in 1903 and an ideal setting for his paintings of rural labour and the harvest. His careful arrangement of figures into repeated poses creates a balanced rhythm of line…
Camille Pissarro: Apple Picking
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Camille Pissarro: Vue sur le village d’Osny
“Painted in 1883, Vue sur le village d’Osny is a wonderfully accomplished work dating from Pissarro’s last ‘Pontoise Period’ before the artist left the region for Éragny in 1884…The complex perspective, showing the two parts of the village bisected by a row of poplar trees and a foreground of dense impasto, illustrates the remarkable breadth of…
Camille Pissarro: Paysannes assises gardant des vaches
“Painted in 1886, Paysannes assises gardant des vaches, is an example of the Divisionist style, which Pissarro explored for the first time for the eighth and final Impressionist exhibition of 1886, and which he went onto develop over the years that followed. According to Pissarro, Impressionism was already in decline in 1883. While painting peasants…
Camille Pissarro: The Boulevard Monmartre on a Winter Morning (1897)
After spending six years in rural Éragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he painted several series of the grands boulevards. Surveying the view from his lodgings at the Grand Hôtel de Russie in early 1897, Pissarro marveled that he could “see down the whole length of the boulevards” with “almost a bird’s-eye view of carriages,…
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