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PISSARRO, CAMILLE (1831–1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 653 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PISSARRO, CAMILLE (1831–1903) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at St See also:Thomas in the Danish See also:Antilles, of Jewish parents of See also:Spanish extraction. He went to See also:Paris at the See also:age of twenty, and, as a See also:pupil of See also:Corot, came into See also:close See also:touch with the See also:Barbizon masters. Though at first he devoted himself to subjects of the See also:kind which will ever be associated with the name of See also:Millet, his See also:interest was entirely absorbed by the landscape, and not by the figures. He subsequently See also:fell under the spell of the rising impressionist See also:movement and threw in his See also:lot with See also:Monet and his See also:friends, who were at that See also:time the See also:butt of public ridicule. Like Monet, he made sunlight, and the effect of sunlight on the See also:objects of nature, the See also:chief subjects of his paintings, whether in the See also:country or on the Paris boulevards. About 1885 he took up the laboriously scientific method of the pointillists, but after a few years of these experiments he returned to a broader and more attractive manner. Indeed, in the closing years of his See also:life he produced some of his finest paintings, in which he set down with admirable truth the See also:peculiar See also:atmosphere and See also:colour and teeming life of the boulevards, streets and See also:bridges of Paris and See also:Rouen. He died in Paris in 1903. Pissarro is represented in the Caillebotte See also:room at the Luxembourg, and in almost every collection of impressionist paintings. A number of his finest See also:works are in the collection of M. See also:Durand-Ruel in Paris.

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