Camille Pissarro: References & Edit History
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Life and work
The definitive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work remains Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: son art, son oeuvre, 2 vol. (1939, reprinted with updated bibliography, 1989). The artist’s letters, a revealing source of study, are in Lucien Pissarro and John Rewald (eds.), Camille Pissarro: Letters to His Son Lucien, 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged, trans. from French (1972, reprinted 1981); and Janine Bailly-Herzberg (ed.), Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, 5 vol. (1980–91).
The artist’s life and work are examined in Kathleen Adler, Camille Pissarro: A Biography (1978); Ralph E. Shikes and Paula Harper, Pissarro: His Life and Work (1980); Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro (1981); Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (1992); and Christoph Becker, Camille Pissarro (1999).
Themes and criticism
Specific aspects of Pissarro’s work are examined in Barbara S. Shapiro, Camille Pissarro: The Impressionist Printmaker (1973); Richard Thomson, Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape, and Rural Labour (1990); Richard R. Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape (1990); Richard R. Brettell and Joachim Pissarro, The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings, ed. by MaryAnne Stevens (1992); and Martha Ward, Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde (1996).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 09, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 06, 2025 | ||
| Added discussion on his Boulevard Montmartre series. | Apr 10, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| Links and photos added. | Oct 28, 2023 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: The J. Paul Getty Museum - Camille Pissarro. | Dec 12, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Gallery of Canada - Chronobiography of Camille Pissarro. | Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Artnet - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: ART UK - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Jan 06, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Art Story - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Jan 06, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Guggenheim - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Jan 21, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: RoGallery - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Mar 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: TATE - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Mar 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Guggenheim - Biography of Camille Pissarro. | Mar 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The J. Paul Getty Museum - Camille Pissarro. | Mar 12, 2013 | ||
| Added image of Camille Pissarro's painting Woman Washing Her Feet in a Brook (1894). | Sep 30, 2010 | ||
| Added image of Camille Pissarro's painting The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise (1873). | Jul 12, 2010 | ||
| Added image of Camille Pissarro's painting The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning (1897). | Apr 22, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Entertainment - Paintings by Camille Pissarro. | Feb 17, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Camille Pissarro. | Oct 13, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 10, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 07, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |