PISSARRO, French family of artists

French family of artists. The most famous member of the family was Camille Pissarro, who held a key position in the development of French painting during the second half of the 19th century. His influence on a number of painters, chiefly Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and the Neo-Impressionists, was of the greatest consequence. Of his eight children, the eldest, Lucien Pissarro, as well as Georges, Félix (1874-1906), Ludovico Rodolph (1878-1954), Paul-Emile (b. 1884) and his daughter, Orovida (b. 1893), were artists.




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