id: 127483 accession number: 1950.164 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.164 updated: 2025-02-09 01:30:59.060000 View of Rouen, 1884. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Etching and soft-ground etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Guy Mayer 1950.164 title: View of Rouen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1884 creation date earliest: 1884 creation date latest: 1884 current location: creditline: Gift of Guy Mayer copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: etching and soft-ground etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Delteil vol.17, no.50 --- CREATORS * Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) - artist Camille Pissarro's parents ran a general merchandise business on St. Thomas. After attending boarding school in Paris, Pissarro returned to the West Indies to work for his father from 1847 until 1852. As an artist he was largely self-taught, receiving some instruction from Fritz Melbye (1826-1896), a Danish artist with whom he traveled to Venezuela in 1852. When Pissarro returned to Paris in 1855, he shared a studio with Anton Melbye (1818-1875), Fritz's brother, and with David Jacobsen (1821-1871). He took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1856 and three years later attended the Académie Suisse, where he befriended artists such as Cézanne (q.v.), Monet (q.v.), and Guillaumin (q.v.). Corot (q.v.) encouraged him to paint landscapes around Paris, and he was listed as Corot's pupil in the catalogues of the Salons of 1864 and 1865. He had met Julie Vellay in 1860, with whom he would have eight children; they married in 1871. Pissarro exhibited regularly at the Salons from 1859 to 1870, although his work received little attention and he sold hardly anything. In 1866 he settled in Pontoise, often returning to Paris where he kept a studio. He frequented Émile Zola's "Thursdays" (weekly literary gatherings) and associated with Manet's (q.v.) artistic circle that gathered in the Café Guerbois. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Pissarro fled with his family, first to Montfoucault and then to London, where he worked with Monet and Daubigny (q.v.) and was introduced to the dealer Durand-Ruel. In 1872 he returned to Pontoise, where he painted with Cézanne. Around 1869 Pissarro began painting in a purely impressionist style, and in 1874 he helped organize the first impressionist exhibition. He moved to Éragny-sur-Epte in 1884, where he came into contact with Seurat (q.v.) and Paul Signac (1863-1935) and subsequently began to work in a pointillist style. He eventually found this technique too limiting, and returned to an impressionist mode, often working in series. By the end of his career his landscapes and depictions of city life sold well, and in 1892 he was given a retrospective exhibition at Durand-Ruel. By now, the artist had developed strongly anarchist convictions. Pissarro not only painted and made drawings, he also experimented with etching and lithography. --- measurements: state of the work: III/III edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Impressionist Aesthetic opening date: 1982-08-10T04:00:00 The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pissarro, Camille, Lucien Pissarro, and Guido Sender. Cartas: 1883-1903. Madrid : La micro, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 17. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.164/1950.164_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.164/1950.164_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.164/1950.164_full.tif