Camille Jacob PissarroFrancia, 1830–1903The Crystal Palace
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Camille Pissarro and his family left France in 1870–71 to escape the Prussian invasion and subsequent civil uprising (known as the Commune). They spent these years in Lower Norwood, outside London. In the neighboring town of Sydenham, Pissarro painted the glass-and-iron Crystal Palace, which was originally designed by Joseph Paxton in 1851 for London’s Hyde Park. Although it was immediately acclaimed for its modern architecture, only two years later the building was dismantled and reassembled in Sydenham. (It was destroyed by fire in 1936.) In this small oil painting, Pissarro relegated what was considered the world’s largest building to the left side of the canvas, as if to give equal space to the “modern-life” scene of families and carriages parading by Sydenham’s more recently constructed middle-class homes.
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- 1972.1164
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Nella vita di Camille Jacob Pissarro
Tutta la vita1870
A move to England because of the Franco-Prussian War
When the Franco-Prussian War began, Pissarro, who held only Danish nationality and could not join the French army, moved his family to Norwood, then a small town on the edge of London; his style of painting was not understood in England.
1870–1871
Meeting Paul Durand-Ruel in London
In London Pissarro met the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who helped him sell his paintings for most of his life.
1871
Married: Julie Vellay
1871–1872
Forty of fifteen hundred paintings survive
Returning home after the war, Pissarro found that of the nearly fifteen hundred paintings he had made over twenty years and left in his studio only forty survived: the rest had been damaged or destroyed by the German soldiers billeted in the house, who used them as boot mats.
1872
Painting with Cézanne in Pontoise
According to his son Lucien, from 1872 Pissarro painted regularly with Cézanne, who walked a few miles to join him; Cézanne, nine years younger, wanted to study the countryside through Pissarro's eyes and spoke of him as a father, a man to consult.
1873
Founding the Société Anonyme of artists
Pissarro told the group he wanted an alternative to the Salon and helped found the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs, of fifteen artists; he wrote its first charter and became the pivotal figure holding it together, and the forty-three-year-old with his prematurely grey beard was regarded as a wise elder and father figure.
