Camille Pissarro (NGL)

The National Gallery, London, is a marvelous art museum with a fine website.  This morning I found myself looking at its small collection of 12 works by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).   

Among these twelve are two works painted in England --

Fox Hill, Upper Norwood, 1870

The Avenue, Sydenham, 1871

Pissarro painted city-scapes, such as these two works made in Paris --

Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897

Louvre under Snow, 1902

The artist spent a great deal of time in the French countryside --

View from Louveciennes, 1869-70

Cote des Boeufs at L'Hermitage, 1877

He painted portraits of people dear to him --

Portrait of Cezanne, 1874

Portrait of Felix Pissarro, 1881

Finally and, to my mind, best of all, he painted country people in their natural rural settings --

A Wool-Carder, 1880

Little Country Maid, 1882

The Pork Butcher, 1883

My personal favorite of all the Pissarros at the NGL is this enchanting portrayal --

Pere Melon Sawing at Pontoise, 1879