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...

Pissarro worked enthusiastically on this cycle on the streets of Paris, no doubt encouraged by Durand-Ruel’s promise that he would show them at his gallery. He chose one of the new...