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Camille Jacob Pissarro, artist
French, 1830 - 1903
Portrait of the Artist's Son, FÈlix, 1880
Charcoal
19.7 x 14.9 cm (sheet)
Bequest of Whitney Warren Jr. in memory of Mrs. Adolph B. Spreckels 1988.10.28

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Artist Biography: Born to a Creole mother and a French father, Pissarro was sent to boarding school in Paris for five years. After eight years back in Saint Thomas and then Caracas, he returned to Paris in 1855 to study art, working first with Anton Melbye and then at the Academie Suisse where he met Monet, Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, and Cezanne. Painting out-of-doors, he developed a personal style much influenced by Courbet and Corot but with a distinct feeling for structure and contrasting tonal values in the landscape. He had his first painting accepted at the Salon of 1859, then joined with Cezanne, Manet, and others in the 1863 Salon des Refuses. Pissarro fled to England during the FrancoPrussian War. Back in Paris, he was a guiding force behind the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 and participated in all seven subsequent group shows. His work gave way in the mid-eighties to a divisionist manner inspired by Seurat, but he returned to a looser, less "scientific" style in the early nineties, and his late serial paintings of cityscapes and harbors are among his greatest achievements.~~Reference: Le Peintre-Graveur IllustrÈ tome Dix-septiËme Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, August Renoir by Loys Delteil (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1923)~

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