Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927, Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford), tr · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 174
on which the peasantlaboured—had never received much attention in art. Those wholooked at Pissarros pictures, therefore, judged them to be alto-gether vulgar. Art, in their opinion, ought to rise to loftierplanes—it ought to soar above the common things of life; andto them Pissarro, who had eyes… … PISSARRO 131 this very rusticity which was once so despised has been singledout for praise. His work has pleased by virtue of his franknessin rendering nature as it really is, without attempting to forceit into a conventional pattern. He has won admirers on accountof the way in which he suggests…
