Camille Pissarro was one of the most influential members of the French Impressionist movement and the only artist to participate in all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
Born in July of 1830 on the island of Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Camille was the son of Frédéric and Rachel Pissarro. At the age of 12, he went to school in Paris, where he displayed a penchant for drawing. He returned again to Paris in 1855, having convinced his parents to allow him to pursue a career as an artist rather than work in the family import/export business. Camille studied at the Académie Suisse alongside Claude Monet, and, during this time, he met Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
In 1869, Camille settled in Louveciennes. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 prompted him to move to England, and, with Monet, Camille painted a series of landscapes around Norwood and Crystal Palace, while studying English landscape painting in the museums. Upon returning a year later at the end of the War to Louveciennes, Camille discovered that only 40 of his 1,500 paintings — almost 20 years’ work — remained undamaged.
Camille settled in Pontoise in the summer of 1871, remaining there and gathering a close circle of friends around him for the next 10 years. He reestablished relationships with Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Renoir and Edgar Degas, expressing his desire to create an alternative to the Salon, so that their group could display their own unique styles. Camille married Julie Vellay, with whom he would have seven children. Cézanne repeatedly came to stay with them, and, under Camille’s influence, he learned to study nature more patiently, even copying one of Camille’s landscapes in order to learn his teacher’s technique.
The first Impressionist group exhibition, initiated by Monet in 1874, earned the Impressionists much criticism for their art. While mainly interested in landscape, Camille introduced people — generally, peasants going about their rural occupations — and animals into his works, and they often became the focal point of the composition. It was this unsentimental and realistic approach, with the complete absence of any pretense, which seemed to stop his work from finding appreciation in the general public.
One of the few collectors who did show interest in Camille’s work was a bank employee named Paul Gauguin, who, after acquiring a small collection of Impressionist works, turned to Camille for advice on becoming a painter himself. For several years, Gauguin closely followed his mentor, and, although their friendship was fraught with disagreement and misunderstandings, Gauguin still wrote shortly before Camille’s death in 1906: “He was one of my masters, and I do not deny him.”
In the 1880s, Camille moved from Pontoise to nearby Osny, before Eragny, a small village much further from Paris. At a time when he was dissatisfied with his work, in 1885, Camille met both Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. He was fascinated by their efforts to replace the intuitive perceptive approach of the Impressionists with a “Divisionist” method, or scientific study of nature’s phenomena based on optical laws. Despite having reached his mid-50s, Camille did not hesitate to follow the two young innovators. The following year, he passed on this new concept to Vincent Van Gogh, who had just arrived in Paris and was keen to learn of the most recent developments in art. However, after a few years, Camille felt restricted by Seurat’s theories and returned to his more spontaneous technique while retaining the lightness and purity of color acquired during his Divisionist phase.
In the last years of his life, Camille divided his time between Paris, Rouen, Le Havre and Eragny, painting several series of different aspects of these cities, with varying light and weather effects. Many of these paintings are considered among his best and make for an apt finale to his long and prodigious career.
When Camille Pissarro died in the autumn of 1903, he had finally started to gain public recognition. Today his work can be found in many of the most important museums and collections throughout the world.
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(Biography provided by Stern Pissarro Gallery)
"Vachere au Bord de l'Eau" original etching on japon paper
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This rare and beautiful impression on japon paper is one of 50 printed for the deluxe edition of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. Published in Paris...
Etching
$215,000
Paysannes Assises - Seated Women, Impressionist Drawing on paper, c. 1880
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Camille Pissarro’s Paysannes assises (c. 1880) is a richly colored, large-scale pastel that distills the artist’s humanism and modernity into an intimate, everyday encounter. Two pea...
Paper, Crayon
$1,463Sale Price|24% Off
Vachère au Bord de l'Eau
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903) VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii) Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper Very...
Drypoint, Etching
"Paysans portant du foin" original etching
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference Delteil 126. Printed on laid paper in 1900 and published in Paris by Henri Floury as the frontispiece for Gustave Geffroy's...
Etching
Fête du Jubilé de la Reine à Bedford Park, Londres
By Camille Pissarro
Located in New York, NY
A superb, dark and evenly-printed impression of this very scarce lithograph by Camille Pissarro and George W. Thornley. Printed in light brown on Chine appliqué. The deluxe edition o...
Lithograph
"Marche aux Legumes, a Pointoise" original etching
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and and aquatint with drypoint. Catalogue reference: Delteil 97. Executed in 1891, this lovely impression is from the edition on cream wove paper published i...
Etching
"Marche a la Volaille, a Gisors, " Original figurative Etching signed
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Marche a la Volaille, a Gisors" is an original etching by Camille Pissarro. It depicts a dense crowd in black and white. This is edition 34/43 from Loys Delteil 98, 2nd State. 14" ...
Etching
Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro". The framed piece measures 20 1/2 x 25 x 2 3/4 in. Camille Pissarro was born on July 10th 1830 on the Caribbean Island of St. Thomas. He live...
Paper, Pastel, Board
Camille Pissarro Etching on Paper, Modern, Unsigned, 1906, Framed, Les Faneuses
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Camille Pissarro Title: Les Faneuses Portfolio: l'Histoire des Peintres Impressionistes Medium: Etching on cream laid paper Date: 1906 Edition: 1000 Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 17"...
Etching
COUPLE DE PAYSANS
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Portland, ME
Pissarro, Camille. COUPLE DE PAYSANS. D.125. Etching and aquatint on laid paper. Unsigned. From the posthumous edition of 10 printed in 1923. 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches, 118 x 78 mm. (plat...
Etching, Aquatint
$10,150
19th century black and white etching aquatint outdoors figurative animal print
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Vachere au Bord de L'Eau" is an original etching and aquatint by Camille Pissarro, the 8th state. It can be found in the catalogue raisonne Delteil #93. It features a woman sitting ...
Etching, Aquatint
$4,250
Grand’mère (effet de lumière) (La Mère de l’artiste) by Camille Pissarro
By Camille Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Grand’mère (effet de lumière) (La Mère de l’artiste) by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Etching 17.1 x 25.3 cm (6 ³/₄ x 10 inches) Stamped lower right, C.P. an...
Etching
Marche aux Legumes a Pontoise
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830- 1903) MARCHE AUX LEGUMES A PONTOISE, 1891 (D. 97ii/ii) Etching and aquatint, Unsigned as published in Le Peintre-graveur Illlustre: Pissarro, Sisley,...
Aquatint
Grand'mère - Portrait de la femme de l'artiste - Lithograph 1895
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed in pencil lower right, titled lower left, inscribed “N°2”. On Chine Appliqué paper, one of only 10 known impressions Catalogue Prouté 1973 n.179. Prov. Paul Prouté, Paris...
Lithograph
Two Workers in the Workfield - Impressionist Pencil Study Drawing
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Two Workers in the Workfield” is a pencil on paper study by quintessential Impressionist artist, Camille Pissarro. Pissarro is often called the backbone of Impressionism because he ...
Paper, Pencil
Baigneuse vue de dos
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Barbizon, FR
Etching , fifth state , numbered 14/50, signed with stamp used for the edition of 50 by Lucien Pissarro on 1920. provenance : collection Henri PETIET , stam...
Etching
$600Sale Price|29% Off
H 13.5 in W 10.5 in
(HUNTERS WITH REFLECTIONS) - RICH IMPRESSION
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 - 1968) (Untitled) - HUNTERS with REFLECTIONS. ca 1925 Etching, signed and numbered 22, lower left. Plate, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Sheet 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches. ...
Etching
OLD CHINATOWN - SAN FRANCISCO
By Childe Hassam
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CHILDE HASSAM (1859 – 1935) OLD CHINATOWN - SAN FRANCISCO 1904 (Cortissoz 95 i/iii?) Etching, 5 ¼ “ x 5”. Signed and dated in the plate and with his cypher in pencil. An early state before additional work as in the example at Cornell University. Very Scarce print. On old ledger paper. Sheet 9 5/8” x 7”. Pre San Francisco earthquake. Based on a rare photograph by Arnold Genthe...
Etching
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
H 7.82 in W 8.5 in D 0.5 in
Querelle d'amoureux. (Quarreling). 1
By James Tissot
Located in Plano, TX
En plein soleil. (In the Sunlight). 1881. Etching and drypoint. Tissot 54, Béraldi 45, Wentworth 54. 7 13/16 x 11 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 15). Edition about 100. Mat line and two hinge s...
Drypoint, Etching
Stoops in Snow
By Martin Lewis
Located in Plano, TX
Stoops in Snow. 1930. Drypoint and sandpaper ground. McCarron catalog 89.state ii. 9 x 14 7/8 (sheet 13 1/4 x 18 7/16 ). Edition 115 recorded impressio...
Drypoint, Etching
$11,000Sale Price|26% Off
H 24.5 in W 20 in D 1 in
Building a Babylon, Tudor City, NY.
By Martin Lewis
Located in Plano, TX
McCarron 76. 12 7/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/4). 6th trial proof (McCarron records 84 impressions including 4 trial proofs). Illustrated L'Amérique de la Dépression: Artistes En...
Drypoint, Etching
$875
H 24.5 in W 31.5 in D 1.5 in
"Medieval Abby of Mont- St. Michel" Architectural Landscape Edition 4 of 5
By Paul Sprohge
Located in Houston, TX
Green and blue tonal architectural landscape of a cathedral. The work is signed, titled, and dated by the artist. It is framed in a gold frame with a white matte. Paul Sprohge is a H...
Lithograph
Italian Boat at Sunrise
By Sidney Mackenzie Litten
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper, 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, (251 x 229 mm), full...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
$350Sale Price|54% Off
H 18.63 in W 16.38 in
L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man
By Tony Minartz
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944) Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned Year: 1903 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France Framing: Recently framed in a traditional gold and black moulding with 100% cotton rag matting Framed size: 18.63" x 16.38" Sheet size: 12" x 9" Image size: 9" x 7.25" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Printed in one color: bistre. This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community. Biography: Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French. Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions. Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...
Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio
$1,800
H 32.5 in W 32.5 in D 2 in
"Sun on Snow II, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 30" x 30"
By Ken Elliott
Located in Westport, CT
This colorful abstract landscape piece is a Limited-Edition giclee print by Ken Elliott with an edition of 195. Printed on canvas, this giclee ships framed in a silver floater frame ...
Digital, Giclée
“Le Chapeau Epingle”
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Southampton, NY
Original etching and drypoint on wove paper. This is the third version and the second edition printed in 1921 of Le Chapeau Epingle. Condition is very good...
Archival Paper, Etching
$4,957
H 20.87 in W 14.18 in D 0.04 in
Les Gitanos - Etching by Edouard Manet - 1862
By Édouard Manet
Located in Roma, IT
Les Gitanos is a black and White etching realized by Edouard Manet in 1862. Titled in the lower. Second state and lifetime impression realized by Société des Aquafortistes, with f...
Etching
$3,500
H 24.5 in W 31.5 in D 1 in
1975 Andrew Dasburg Color Lithograph, "Trees in Ranchitos II" Taos Modernist
By Andrew Michael Dasburg
Located in Denver, CO
"Trees in Ranchitos II" is a striking 1975 color lithograph by acclaimed modernist artist Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887–1979). This collectible artwork, initialed in the lower right, beautifully captures the serene landscapes of New Mexico, reflecting Dasburg’s signature fusion of Post-Impressionism and Cubist influences. The composition conveys the tranquil rhythm of trees and desert terrain, combining geometric abstraction with lyrical naturalism. The lithograph is presented in a custom frame measuring 30 ½ x 36 ¼ inches, with an image size of 16 ½ x 23 ¼ inches, making it a sophisticated and visually compelling addition to any collection of Taos Modernist art, American modernism, or Southwestern landscape prints. About Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887–1979): Born in Paris, France, Dasburg immigrated to New York City in 1892, where his early talent was recognized. He trained at the Art Students League of New York under notable instructors including Robert Henri, Kenyon Cox, and Birge Harrison. In 1908, he returned to Paris and encountered the works of Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne, experiences that ignited his lifelong commitment to modernism. After settling in Woodstock, NY, Dasburg immersed himself in the avant-garde scene, collaborating with Morgan Russell...
Lithograph
"Sketch of a Cart Pony"
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Astoria, NY
Camille Pissarro (Danish/French, 1830-1903), "Sketch of a Cart Pony", Graphite on Paper, stamped with the initials "C.P." lower right (Lugt 613e), silvered wood frame, with Coleman A...
Paper, Graphite
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H 17.5 in W 14.75 in D 1 in
"Marche aux Legumes, a Pontoise" [Vegetable Market at Pontoise]
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Astoria, NY
Camille Pissarro (Danish/French, 1830-1903), "Marche aux Legumes, a Pontoise" [Vegetable Market at Pontoise], Etching and Drypoint, circa 1891, apparently unsigned, silvered wood fra...
Etching
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H 32.25 in W 36.5 in D 4.75 in
Le Pont-Royal, temps gris lumineux by Camille Pissarro
By Camille Pissarro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Camille Pissarro 1830-1903 French Le Pont-Royal, temps gris lumineux Signed and dated "C. Pissarro 1903" (lower left) Oil on canvas Representing the culmination of Camille Pissar...
Canvas, Oil
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H 9.5 in W 11.75 in D 1.5 in
Antique French Etching Aquatint Drypoint "Epos du Dimanche dans le Bois" 5 of 18
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Portland, OR
An important etching and aquatint on black on laid paper, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) "Repos du Dimanche dans le Bois" (A Peaceful Sunday in the Woods), 1891. A numbered Edition ...
Etching
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H 12 in W 9 in D 1.5 in
Antique Etching Aquatint "Vachère au Bord de L'Eau" Edition # 75 of Edition 100
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Portland, OR
An important etching and aquatint in black on laid paper, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), "Vachere au Bord de l'Eau" (cowherder at the water’s edge) 8th state numbered Edition # 75 ...
Etching, Drypoint
"Paysans portant du foin" original etching
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference Delteil 126. Printed in 1900 and published in Paris by H. Floury as the frontispiece for Gustave Geffroy's "La Vie Artistiq...
Etching
"Faneuses d'Eragny" original etching
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Executed in 1897, this impression is from the rare 1897 portfolio "Art et Nature" by Leon Roger-Miles, published in Paris by Boudet in an editi...
Etching, Drypoint
Femmes Nues
By Camille Pissarro
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce lithograph printed in black on light tan Chine appliqué. Numbered 2/18 in pencil, and with the artist's initials ink stamp, lower left recto.
Lithograph
Marché
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Camille Pissarro. "Marché" is an impressionist architectural painting, watercolor, pencil, and charcoal on paper in a pale palette of grays and greens by Blue Chip, Fre...
Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil
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H 24 in W 27 in D 2.5 in
Camille Pissarro "Paysanne" (Double sided work)
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Camille Pissarro ( 1830-1903 ) Paysanne (Double sided work), 1890 Charcoal and black crayon on paper 24.5 x 18.75 inches (622 x 476 mm) Framed size: 35.5 x 30 x 2 Inches Signed with ...
Charcoal, Crayon
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H 24 in W 27 in
Camille Pissarro "Vacher dans un pré à Éragny" (Cowherd in a Meadow at Éragny)
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO French, 1830–1903 Vacher dans un pré à Éragny (Cowherd in a Meadow at Éragny), 1890 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 15” x 18-1/4” unframed 24” x 27” fram...
Canvas, Oil
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H 18 in W 15 in D 1 in
Original Camille Pissarro etching "Haymakers - Les Faneuses"
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Hinsdale, IL
PISSARRO, CAMILLE (1830 -1903) "HAYMAKERS –LES FANEUSES" Delteil 94, c. 1890 Etching in bistre-brown ink Only State known, edition 500 As published in Die Impressionisten, Duret, Be...
Etching