Musée Camille Pissarro
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The Musée Camille Pissarro is a municipal art museum in Pontoise . The museum, which opened in 1980, is named after the French painter Camille Pissarro , who lived in Pontoise for 17 years and repeatedly chose the location and its surroundings as a motif for his works. In addition to some works by Pissarro and his sons, the collection includes works of art by various other artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
history
Camille Pissarro lived and worked, with a few interruptions, from 1866 to 1883 in the small town of Pontoise. The city has also been home to the archive of the Les amis de Camille Pissarro ( Friends of Camille Pissarro ) association since 1975 . For the painter's 150th birthday in 1980, the municipality of Pontoise decided to expand the municipal art museum Musée Tavet-Delacour. For this purpose, she made a villa from the late 19th century available, which was opened on November 22, 1980 as the Musée Camille Pissarro in honor of the artist who previously worked in Pontoise. The museum is located on the site of the former royal castle of Pontoise and initially housed the collection of works from the 19th century from the Musée Tavet Delacour and the archive of the association Les amis de Camille Pissarro . In addition, the museum has built up its own art collection since it was founded. The elevated position on a fortified plateau above the river Oise allows visitors a good view of the place and the landscape, which Pissarro often chose as a motif for his works.
collection
Although the museum bears the name Camille Pissarro, the number of his works in the exhibition is small. Only one oil painting, Barges à La Roche-Guyon from 1864, can be seen in the museum. The museum also owns some of his drawings and a large number of prints by the artist. There are also paintings by his sons Lucien Pissarro , Georges Manzana-Pissarro , Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro and Félix Pissarro , who are also active as painters .
The other paintings on display in the museum are by artists who, like Camille Pissarro, lived and worked in Pontoise and the surrounding area. These include the French painters Charles-François Daubigny , Armand Guillaumin , Paul Signac , Louis Hayet , Ludovic Piette , Paul Cézanne , Gustave Caillebotte , Norbert Goeneutte and Maximilien Luce . The landscape on the Oise was also particularly attractive to international artists at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The works of art by the local Venezuelan painter Emilio Boggio and the Spanish artists Luis Jiménez Aranda and Emilio Sánchez Perrier testify to this .
literature
- John Bensusan-Butt: Camille Pissarro et son fils Lucien. Musée Camille Pissarro, Pontoise 1982.
- Musée Camille Pissarro (Ed.): Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903. (Exhibition catalog), Fromentin, Louviers 1984, DNB 209608617 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 54 ″ N , 2 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E