Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was born in the Danish West Indies and was the only painter to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions. He was also the group's teacher: Cezanne said he was a father to me, and Gauguin learned from him too. He painted the fields and orchards around Pontoise and Eragny with a patience the others lacked, then in his fifties threw the method over and adopted Seurat's pointillism, only to abandon that as well. Late in life, kept indoors by a chronic eye infection, he took hotel rooms above the boulevards of Paris and Rouen and painted the street below in every weather. He was an anarchist by conviction and generous by habit. This archive holds high-resolution scans of his work, free to preview and available as originals for printing.