In 1885 Camille Pissarro met Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, both of whom relied on a more "scientific" theory of painting by using very small patches of pure colours to create the illusion of blended colours and shading when viewed from a distance. Pissarro then spent the years from 1885 to 1888 practising this more time-consuming and laborious technique, referred to as pointillism. The paintings that resulted were distinctly different from his Impressionist works, and were on display in the 1886 Impressionist Exhibition, but under a separate section, along with works by Seurat, Signac, and his son Lucien.
All four works were considered an "exception" to the eighth exhibition. Joachim Pissarro notes that virtually every reviewer who commented on Pissarro's work noted "his extraordinary capacity to change his art, revise his position and take on new challenges.": One critic writes:
"It is difficult to speak of Camille Pissarro ... What we have here is a fighter from way back, a master who continually grows and courageously adapts to new theories."
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Village at the foot of a hill in Saint-Thomas Antilles 1855 |
Antilian landscape St.Thomas 1856 |
Village corner 1863 |
Pere Gallien's house at Pontoise 1866 |
L'hermitage at Pontoise 1867 |
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Apple trees at Pontoise 1868 |
View of Pontoise quai au Pothuis 1868 |
Entering the forest of Marly snow effect 1869 |
Road to Racquencourt 1871 |
A road in Louveciennes 1872 |
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Entrance to the village of voisins Yvelines 1872 |
Landscape with strollers relaxing under the trees 1872 |
September fete Pontoise 1872 |
Still-life with apples and pitcher 1872 |
Sunset 1872 |
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Bouquet of flowers 1873 |
Bourgeois house in l'Hermitage Pontoise 1873 |
Chrysanthemums in a chinese vase 1873 |
Landscape with flooded fields 1873 |
Self-portrait 1873 |
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The haystack Pontoise 1873 |
Farm at Montfoucault 1874 |
Piette's home on Montfoucault 1874 |
The hermitage at Pontoise 1874 |
Lucien Pissarro in an interior 1875 |
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Festival at the hermitage 1876 |
Fields 1877 |
On orchard in Pontoise in winter 1877 |
Red roofs corner of a village winter 1877 |
Shoemakers 1878 |
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Le boulevard de Clichy 1880 |
Pere Melon cutting wood 1880 |
Gathering herbs 1882 |
Paysanne Couchant 1882 |
The poultry market at Pontoise 1882 |
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Portrait of madame Pissarro 1883 |
Cowgirl Eragny 1887 |
The harvest of hay in Eragny 1887 |
Woman hanging up the washing 1887 |
Shepherd and sheep 1888 |
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Young peasant at her toilette 1888 |
Haymakers at Eragny 1889 |
The gleaners 1889 |
Twilight Eragny 1889 |
Peasant woman watching the geese 1890 |
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Haymakers resting 1891 |
Haymaking at Eragny 1891 |
Peasant women planting stakes 1891 |
Church at Kew 1892 |
Poultry market Pontoise 1892 |
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The Roundelay 1892 |
The talk 1892 |
View of Bazincourt frost morning 1892 |
View of Bazincourt sunset 1892 |
Woman with a wheelbarrow 1892 |
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Rue Saint-Lazare 1893 |
Bathers 1894 |
Bathers 1895 |
Spring gray weather Eragny 1895 |
Morning overcast day Rouen 1896 |
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Quay in Rouen sunset 1896 |
The pont Boieldieu Rouen sunset 1896 |
The pont Corneille Rouen grey weather 1896 |
The roofs of old Rouen grey weather 1896 |
Boulevard des Italiens afternoon 1897 |
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Boulevard Montmartre afternoon sunlight 1897 |
Boulevard Montmartre foggy morning 1897 |
Boulevard Montmartre morning sunlight and mist 1897 |
Boulevard Montmartre spring 1897 |
Boulevard Montmartre spring rain 1897 |
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Boulevard Montmartre winter morning 1897 |
Rue Saint-Lazare under snow 1897 |
Avenue de L'Opera effect of snow 1898 |
Avenue de l'Opera rain effect 1898 |
Laundresses at Eragny 1898 |
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Place du Thretre Francais sun effect 1898 |
Rue de l'Epicerie at rouen on a grey morning 1898 |
The laundry woman 1898 |
Garden of the Louvre morning grey weather 1899 |
Still-life with peppers 1899 |
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The Carrousel afternoon 1899 |
The Carrousel autumn morning 1899 |
The market at Gisors 1899 |
The Tuilleries gardens winter afternoon 1899 |
Self-portrait 1900 |
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The garden of th e Tuileries morning spring 1900 |
The Louvre winter sunshine morning 1900 |
The Tuileries gardens 1900 |
Harvest at Eragny 1901 |
Haymaking in Eragny 1901 |
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Sunset at Moret sur loing 1901 |
The church of St.Jacques in Dieppe morning sun 1901 |
The fair Dieppe sunny afternoon 1901 |
The Louvre morning mist 1901 |
Roses of Nice 1902 |
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The Louvre gray weather afternoon 1902 |
The pavillion de flore and the Pont Royal 1902 |
The inner harbor Havre 1903 |
The Louvre morning 1903 |
Still life 1867 |