Camille Pissarro, The Castle of La Roche-Guyon (Château de la Roche-Guyon) (1880)

“One must be simple, natural and have lots of character.” -- Letter from Camille Pissaro to his son Lucien, 28 February, 1900 In this painting, Pissarro has introduced men and wom...

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...

In June 1871 Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet returned to France from England, where they had taken refuge during the Franco-Prussian war. After settling again in Louveciennes, a ...