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Pissarro

On Reflection: Divisionism

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Technically challenging for painstaking Divisionist techniques, those who chose to depict reflections used studies to help, and Seurat was generally optically faithful. But the best of all was Théo van Rysselberghe.

April 9, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 246 Apron

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As a sign of those in domestic service, and the poor when working on the land, worn by those in the kitchen, even the men, and protecting their bodies when at work.

February 20, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Naturalists: Naturalism and Impressionism

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A spectrum of purposes and styles, inspired by Émile Zola’s experimental approach to novels, documenting ordinary people with objectivity, in a neutral realism.

February 19, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Fans from Japan

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Long used as a support for fine art painting in East Asia, fans made their way from Japan into French collections in the late 19th century, and Degas and Pissarro saw their potential.

January 6, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Fog on the Thames 1844-1899

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Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.

December 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Louveciennes landscapes: After the war

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After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life’s work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds.

October 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Louveciennes landscapes: Before the war

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In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents’ house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism.

October 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Impressionists at Pontoise: 1876-81

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Matching views painted by Pissarro and CĂ©zanne of the CĂ´te des Boeufs, a rainbow, the village in winter snow, and Pissarro’s gradual change to Pointillism.

September 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Impressionists at Pontoise: 1867-76

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From Pissarro’s early realist landscapes of 1867, the landscapes of a forgotten Impressionist, to the first outdoor paintings of Paul CĂ©zanne made alongside Pissarro’s easel.

September 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Sketch or studio?

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How oil paint can be used to create crisp and blurred edges, and sfumato. Implications of paint drying in some of Monet’s paintings, including his Grainstack series.

August 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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