Camille Pissarro: where to see him across these museums

Born on the island of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Pissarro arrived in Paris in 1855 and gradually built the circle of painters — Monet, Cézanne, Degas, Renoir among them — who would become the Impressionists. He helped organise their first group show in 1874 and, alone among them, exhibited at every one of the eight Impressionist exhibitions through 1886.

Generous and unusually open to new ideas for a painter of his generation, he experimented with Pointillism alongside Seurat in the 1880s before returning to a looser touch, and gave informal lessons to Cézanne early in both their careers. He died in Paris in 1903, remembered by his peers less for a single signature style than for the encouragement he gave nearly everyone around him.

Pissarro paintings on display, museum by museum

Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.

Listen to the commentary in the gallery

This list tells you where to look. In front of the actual painting, CulturAll adds the audio commentary: photograph the work or its label, listen, then ask your questions.