Pissarro

[ pi-sahr-oh; French pee-sa-roh ]

/ pɪˈsɑr oʊ; French pi saˈroʊ /

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noun

Ca·mille

[ka-mee-yuh], /kaˈmi yə/, 1830–1903, French painter.

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How to use Pissarro in a sentence

The two artists who give the true thrill of this phase of the modern movement are without question Pissarro and Sisley.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
Men like Pissarro and Sisley were not forgetting Courbet and his admirable knowledge of reality.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
After seeing a great number of Monet's one turns to any simple Pissarro for relief.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
In 1839 he was born at Aix-en-Provence, and for forty years he painted patiently in the manner of his master Pissarro.
Art|Clive Bell

Like him, Pissarro was a painter of streets and landscapes who returned again and again to the same motif.
Since Czanne|Clive Bell

British Dictionary definitions for Pissarro

Pissarro

/ (pɪˈsɑːrəʊ, French pisaro) /

noun

Camille (kamij). 1830–1903, French impressionist painter, esp of landscapes

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