Pissarro: Self-Portrait
Camille Pissarro was a founder and leader
of the impressionist school. Born in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, into
a Portuguese-Jewish family, he went to school in Paris but was called home
to enter the family business. After running away to Venezuela to paint,
he was finally allowed to study art in Paris. Throughout his life Pissarro
was a kindly, generous patriarch to younger painters such as C zanne,
Gauguin, Seurat, and van Gogh. This Self-Portrait, hanging in the
Muse d'Orsay in Paris, was done in
1873. (Giraudon/Art Resource, NY)
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Source:
"Pissarro: Self-Portrait," Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier, Inc., 2001. <http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/gme_bp?assetid=aa570&assettype=p> (May 20, 2001).