Saturday 6 August 2016

Camille Pissarro part - 12

1900 Self-Portrait
Private Collection

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands). His importance resides in his contributions to the Impressionist movements. He studied from great forerunners including Gustave Courbet and 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.

Pissarro is the only artist to have shown in all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. He acted as a father-figure, not only to the Impressionists, but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Over halfway through the series now. I hope the story of Pissarro’s life and work is of interest because it is a major series running for a while yet. Though I haven’t included absolutely every piece of Pissarro’s work, I am featuring well over a thousand examples, the better to understand his legacy.


This is part 12 of a major 21-part series on the works of Camille Pissarro. For a fuller biography see part 1, and for earlier works, see Parts 1 to 11 also.



1887 Cowgirl, Éragny
gouache on paper mounted on board 54 x 64.8 cm
Private Collection

1887 Peasants' Houses, Éragny
oil on canvas 83 x 96.6 cm
Art Gallery of New South wales, Sydney, Australia

1887 Picking Peas
gouache
Private Collection

1887 Shepherdess and Sheep
gouache on paper
Private Collection

1887 The Dairymaid, Morning, Sunshine
pencil and gouache on paper 20.3 x 26.6 cm
Private Collection

1887 The Hay Harvest , Éragny
oil on canvas 51 x 66 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

1887 The Market at Gisors
watercolour on paper 31.4 x 24 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1887 The Market in Gisors
gouache on paper
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio

1887 Wanderer near the Wood
oil on canvas

1887 Washerwoman, Éragny
gouache on paper 54.6 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection

1887c Women Tending the Laundry (study)
oil on board
Private Collection

1887 Woman Hanging Laundry
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1887-88 The Sower
wood engraving with watercolour 12.5 x 17.3 cm
de Young-Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1887c Near Éragny
pastel on paper
Private Collection

1887c Shepherdesses
tempera and gouache
Matsuoke Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1888 Apple Harvest
oil on canvas 61 x 74 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1888 Flock of Sheep
oil on canvas 46 x 55.2 cm
Private Collection

1888 Flowering Apple Trees At Éragny
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1888 Goose Girl
etching and drypoint on China paper 13.5 x 19.5 cm (plate)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1888 Ile Lacruix, Rouen: Effect of Fog
oil on canvas 44 x 55 cm
Private Collection

1888 La Riviere aux Saules, Éragny
gouache on silk mounted on board
Private Collection

1888 Meadow at Éragny, Grey Weather
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm
Private Collection

1888 Peasant Woman Carrying a Basket
gouache on linen mounted on board
Private Collection

1888 Shepherd and Sheep
distemper on linen mounted on canvas 22.2 x 27 cm
Private Collection

1888 The Maid at the Market
etching and drypoint on China paper 19.4 x 13.1 cm (plate)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1888 Two Women in a Garden
graphite and gouache on silk 32.5 x 24.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1888 Young Peasant at Her Toilette
gouache on linen 33.3 x 25 cm
Private Collection

1888-95c Two Cowherds by the River
gouache on silk mounted on paper
Private Collection

1889 A Meadow in Éragny
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm
Private Collection

1889 Flock of Sheep in a Field after the Harvest
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1889 Grandmother; The Artist's Mother
etching and aquatint 17.4 x 25.6 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1889 Haymakers at Éragny
oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
Private Collection

1889 Landscape, near Pontoise
oil on canvas 44 x 55 cm
Private Collection

1889 Paysanne a la Fourché
etching and aquatint 11.9 x 7.3 cm
de Young/Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1889 Peasant Woman Feeding a Child
etching and aquatint 12 x 12 cm (plate)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1889 Poultry Market at Gisors
gouache and tempera 46 x 38 cm
Private Collection

1889 Shepherd and Sheep, Éragny
pastel and charcoal on paper 24 x 32 cm
Private Collection

1889 Shepherd in a Downpour
tempera on canvas 60 x 73.3 cm
Private Collection

1889 Spring Pasture
oil on canvas 60 x 73.7 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1889 The Fair at Gisors
pencil and gouache on silk mounted on canvas 30.5 x 24.1 cm
Private Collection

1889 The Gleaners
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

1889 The Gleaners
watercolour, pen and ink over charcoal on paper mounted on board 48.1 x 39.7 cm
Private Collection

1889 The Path
oil on canvas 72.4 x 59.7 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

1889 Twilight, Éragny
watercolour
Private Collection

1889 View of the Village of Bazincourt
oil on panel 15.4 x 23.8 cm
Private Collection

1889 Woman at Gate
drypoint and etching on laid paper 15.7 x 10.6 cm (plate)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1889-1902 Landscape with Flock of Sheep
oil on canvas 60.3 x 73.7 cm
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

1890 Cowherd in a Field at Éragny
oil on canvas 38 x 46.5 cm
Private Collection

1890 Cowherd, at Water's Edge
etching and drypoint on laid paper 19.8 x 13.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1890 Éragny
graphite and watercolour on paper mounted on card 17.7 x 25.3 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK