Pissarro, Labels

  

"Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was born on 10 July 1830 on the island of St. Thomas to Frederick Abraham Gabriel Pissarro and Rachel Manzano-Pomié. (Apples)

His father was of Portuguese Jewish descent and held French nationality. His mother was from a French-Jewish family from St. Thomas. 

His father was a merchant who came to the island from France to deal with the hardware store of a deceased uncle, Isaac Petit, and married his widow.  

The marriage caused a stir within St. Thomas's small Jewish community because she was previously married to Frederick's uncle and according to Jewish law a man is forbidden from marrying his aunt. 

 In subsequent years his four children attended the all-black primary school." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Pissarro 

"Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro  

10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French 

 Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist 

 painter born on the island of St Thomas  

(now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). "  

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Danish? That's quite a stretch 

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Jalais Hill, Pontoise, 1867. Metropolitan Museum 

Le grand noyer à l'Hermitage, 1875. 

"The following year, in 1874, the group held their First Impressionist Exhibition, which shocked and "horrified" the critics, who primarily appreciated only scenes portraying religious, historical, or mythological settings. They found fault with the Impressionist paintings on many grounds:

The subject matter was considered "vulgar" and "commonplace," with scenes of street people going about their everyday lives. .

Pissarro's paintings, for instance, showed scenes of muddy, dirty, and unkempt settings;" 

Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes, 1872

" In later years, Cézanne also recalled this period and referred to Pissarro as "the first Impressionist". "  

Mary Cassatt "came to prefer the company of "the gentle Camille Pissarro", with whom she could speak frankly about the changing attitudes toward art. She once described him as a teacher  

"that could have taught the stones to draw correctly." 

"the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they "professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them"