P.E.’s Reviews > Pissarro > Status Update

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Boulevard Montmartre, effet de nuit (1897)

Pâturages, coucher de soleil, Éragny (1890)

'In 1869, Pissarro painted with Monet and Renoir at La Grenouillère [on the Island of La Chaussée on the Seine], near his residence. The painters were fascinated by the reflections of the light in the water, which they attempted to capture with brief, wide strokes of the brush.'

'During his life, Camille Pissaro combined many different artistic influences and styled along with many cultural backgrounds. He was born in 1830 on the then-Danish island of St. Thomas, which is today part of the American Virgin Islands. Raised in bourgeois conditions, his parents–of French and Portuguese, Jewish and Christian origin–sent him to France in 1841 for six years where he sought an internship in Passy.'

'As the oldest painter of the impressionists and initiator of their group exhibitions, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is called the "father of the impressionists".'