Sunday 14 August 2016

Camille Pissarro part - 16

1903 Self-Portrait
oil on canvas 41 x 33 cm
Tate, London

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.

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 16 of a 21-part series on the works of Camille Pissarro. For a fuller biography see part 1, and for earlier works, see Parts 1 to 15 also.


1895 Two Women Bathing
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1895 White Frost at Éragny
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1895 Woman Mending
oil on canvas 65.4 x 54.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1895 Woman Putting on Her Stockings
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1895-96 Bathers
monoprint, pencil and gouache on laid paper 11.4 x 15.9 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1895-1900 Trees and Meadows at Éragny
black chalk on originally pale pink laid paper 30.8 x 47.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1895-1902 Peasants Chatting in the Farmyard, Éragny
oil on canvas 80 x 65.4 cm
Private Collection

1895c Bathers
lithograph 13.4 x 20.2 cm (image)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1895c Bathers Tending Geese
colour etching and drypoint with aquatint 9.1 x 15.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1895c Haymaking
gouache over pencil on board
Private Collection

1895c Market at Pontoise
lithograph
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1895c The Garden at Éragny
oil on canvas 59.8 x 73 cm
Private Collection

1895c The Harvest
pen and ink and lead white gouache on paper 19 x 20.6 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1895c The Market
monotype on cream paper 13 x 18 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1896 Apple Trees, Sunset, Éragny
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1896 Bathers
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1896 Enclosed Field at Éragny
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1896 Peasant Women
lithograph 16.6 x 13.3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1896 Peasants Carrying Sticks
lithograph 21 x 28.5 cm (image)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1896 Peasants Carrying Sticks
lithograph
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1896 The Young Maid
oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm
The Whitworth, Manchester University, UK

1896-97 Workers in the Fields
gouache on silk mounted on board 25.4 x 19.7 cm
Private Collection

In 1896 Pissarro made his third working trip to the city of Rouen. Largely ignoring the historic medieval quarter, he was more interested in showing the frenetic activity of the river port.
Constantly changing weather meant working on several paintings at once - he wrote: "I have fog, mist, rain, sunset and grey effects. I need a few good sessions for two sunsets, two fogs, a sunlight and a grey morning. Will I get them by the end of March?"


1896 Afternoon, Sun, Rouen
oil on canvas 55 x 65.8 cm
Private Collection

1896 Fog, Morning, Rouen
oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm
Private Collection

1896 Foggy Morning, Rouen
oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK

1896 Morning, after the Rain, Rouen
oil on canvas 60 x 82 cm
Private Collection

1896 Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen
oil on canvas 54.3 x 65.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1896 Morning, Rouen, the Quays
oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm
Private Collection

1896 Quay in Rouen: Sunset
oil on canvas 45 x 55 cm
Private Collection

1896 Steamboats in the Port of Rouen
oil on canvas 45.7 x 54.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1896 Suburb and Quai St. Sever in Rouen
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Private Collection

1896 The Great Bridge, Rouen
oil on canvas 74.1 x 92.1 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

1896 The Pont Boieldieu , Rouen: Rain Effect
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany

1896 The Pont Boieldieu , Rouen: Sunset, Misty Weather
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1896 The Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather 
oil on canvas 73.6 x 91.4 cm 
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

1896 The Pont Boieldieu, Rouen: Fog
oil on canvas 60.3 x 87 cm
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

1896 The Pont Boieldieu, Rouen: Sunset
oil on canvas 74.2 x 92.5 cm
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK

1896 The Pont Corneille, Rouen: Grey Weather
oil on canvas 61.1 x 91.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

1896 The Pont Corneille, Rouen: Morning Effect
oil on canvas 73 x 92.1 cm
Private Collection

1896 The Pont Corneille, Rouen: Morning Mist
oil on canvas 72 x 93 cm
Private Collection

1896 The Port of Rouen, Saint-Sever
oil on canvas 65.5 x 92 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1896 The Roofs of Old Rouen, Grey Weather
oil on canvas 72.3 x 91.4 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

1896 The Saint-Sever Bridge at Rouen, Fog
oil on canvas 60 x 81 cm
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

1896 The Saint-Sever Quay, Rouen
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm
Private Collection

1896 The Seine at Rouen, Pont Boieldieu
oil on canvas 54.5 x 65.2 cm
Private Collection

1896 The Seine in Flood, Pont Boieldieu, Rouen
oil on canvas 54.5 x 66 cm
Private Collection

1896 Unloading Wood at Rouen
oil on canvas 54 x 65.5 cm
Private Collection

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