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An 1874 oil on canvas, Piette's House at Montfoucault, Snow Effect, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The house belonged to Pissaro's fellow artist and good friend Ludovic Piette. (The Clark Art Institute...

An 1877 oil on canvas, Kitchen Garden with Trees in Flower, Spring, Pontoise (aka Spring Plum Trees in Flower), by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. This is a view of the artist's garden. This work was...

An 1881 oil on canvas, Young Girl with a Stick (aka The Sheperdess), by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The girl's face reflects the colours of the leaves, flowers, and her own hat. The artist said of...

An 1898 oil on canvas, Place du Théâtre Français, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist painted many scenes of Paris in this later stage of his career. Many, as here, lack a horizon or well-defined...

An 1897 oil on canvas, Boulevard Montmartre Night Effect, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Pissarro very rarely painted night scenes, but here he captures Émile Zola's famous description of Paris by...

An 1887 oil on canvas landscape by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Here the artist is using the pointillist method of building up an image using small dots of colour. Unlike others who used dots, Pissarro...

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, marble bust by Henri-Frédéric Iselin (1825-1905). Palace of Versailles. Photo: Philippe Dessante

Marie-Thérèse Sophie Richard de Ruffey, marquise de Monnier, lover of Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, engraving by Jean-Louis Delignon, 1804. MAS Estampes Anciennes, Paris.

A c. 1900 oil on canvas self-portrait by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist had a long white beard from middle age onwards, which led to friends in cafés calling "Hail Moses" when he entered...

Portrait depicting Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), French orator, politician and French Revolutionary leader. Pastel on paper by Joseph Boze, 1789. Palace of Versailles.