Camille Pissarro, Self-Portrait (Camille Pissarro, par lui-meme) (ca. 1890)

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the photograph rapidly replaced the painted portrait as the public’s preferred medium for recording an accurate individual likene...

Pissarro’s landscape are usually inhabited and worked. Traditional landscapes often incorporate ancient ruins and timeless figures in harmony with nature, such as bathers or nymphs...

Though born in Paris, Paul Gauguin spent his formative years in Peru. His father having died while the family was en route, Paul and his sister Marie lived with their mother in t...