Camille Pissarro

Fecamp – The Artists – Pissarro, Camille

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Fecamp. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro

Movement(s): Impressionism, Neo Impressionism, Post Impressionism

Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter. He was born on the island of St. Thomas (when it was still in hands of Denmark). He is recognised as being important and an influencer in the impressionist movement.

In 1859 his first painting was accepted and exhibited. His other paintings during that period were influenced by Camille Corot, who tutored him. He and Corot both shared a love of rural scenes painted from nature. It was by Corot that Pissarro was inspired to paint outdoors, also called “plein air” painting. Pissarro found Corot, along with the work of Gustave Courbet, to be “statements of pictorial truth,” writes Rewald. He discussed their work often. Jean-François Millet was another whose work he admired, especially his “sentimental renditions of rural life“.

As the recognised “Dean of Impressionists“, he became friends with the likes of Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and several other who have become famous later on.

In 1903 Pissarro was seeing hard times and needed money. A businessman in Le Havre commissioned him to make 24 paintings of the harbour of Le Havre. Most of them were made out of his hotel room.

Pissarro had quite an active life as a painter, and was controversial. Click here to read Pissarro’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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NOTE: To our knowledge, Pissarro never painted in Fecamp itself, instead painted in nearby Les Petites Dalles.

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Les Petites-Dalles

The hamlet of Les Petites-Dalles lies a few villages to the North of Fecamp along the coast. It is a small but popular resort village. Many famous people (Gustave Eiffel, Jules Verne, Claude Monet, Brad Pitt) have stayed here. And yes, there is a Les Grandes-Dalles a little further towards Fecamp but less popular.

1883 - Camille Pissarro - Cliffs at Petit-Dalles
1883 – Camille Pissarro – Cliffs at Petit-Dalles

TODAY: The beach is small, narrow and not sandy, instead it’s full of rocks and pebbles.

Pissarro painted mostly in Normandy and a few other places in France (plus some places abroad), which will be featured eventually on this site. A link “” to those cities will appear below.

Fecamp is a picturesque fishing town which made for a great backdrop for many artist. Here are all the artists who applied their arts in the town and its surroundings (a link “” will appear when we have published an article on this artist’s works in Fecamp):

NOTE: a “*” besides the artist’s name indicates that the artist did NOT work directly in Fecamp, instead worked in Fecamp’s surroundings only.

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