Pissarro

[pi-sahr-oh, pee-sa-roh]

noun

1. Camille 1830–1903, French painter.

Pissarro

/ pɪˈsɑːrəʊ, pisaro /

noun

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

Example Sentences

They may well be the reason that Pissarro has not had a retrospective in the U.S. since 1981—which was also the first in many decades.

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“The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum through Feb. 8, 2026, which was organized with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, sides with the advocates.

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Labeling him “the first Impressionist,” it presents Pissarro as a painter who led the way, albeit one focused on unglamorous aspects of everyday life, mostly in the countryside outside Paris.

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The display then reverts to Pissarro’s beginnings.

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Born in St. Thomas in what was then the Danish West Indies, Pissarro was sent to school in the Paris suburbs at age 12, but declined upon his return five years later to take up his father’s profession as a merchant.

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