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 178
occur only incidentally, his body-colour draw-ings are composed almost exclusively of peasants, either singly orin groups. For a proper knowledge of Pissarro as a painter of rurallife, it is necessary, therefore, to study his drawings in body-colour. AVhen at first he began to paint peasants, he… … BERGERE PISSARRO PISSARRO 133 paint peasants from life, appeared to be merely a servile imitator.But now, when it is possible to consider the work of the twoartists from a distance, it is difficult to understand how Pissarro,even before the original character of his work was fully developed,should…
