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Camille Pissarro

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French
Birth/Death
1830-1903

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Artwork by Camille Pissarro
Work of Art
The Saint-Sever Bridge, Rouen: Mist

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Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French impressionist painter. He was a French anarchist born in the Danish West Indies. Pissarro traveled to Rouen, a city in northern France, several times throughout his life. He painted many scenes of bridges there. Of the impressionists, Pissarro was the most receptive to experimentation with new ideas and approaches.

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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French: [kamij pisaʁo]; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-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. In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality"….