Camille Pissarro, July 10, 1830–November 13, 1903, was a Danish-French painter and printmaker born on Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies. He worked with the Danish painter Fritz Melbye in Venezuela before settling in Paris in 1855, where he attended the Académie Suisse and studied with Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Pissarro painted rural landscapes, agricultural workers, and village scenes, and was closely associated with Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, and other Impressionists. He participated in all eight Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. During the 1880s, he experimented with Neo-Impressionist techniques developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.

In his later years, Pissarro produced series of urban views of Paris, Rouen, and Le Havre, often painting from upper-floor windows. He died in Paris in 1903. His works are held by the Musée d’Orsay, the National Gallery, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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