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Portrait Felix Pissarro
Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1944
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<p>This is a portrait of the artist's third son, aged seven. Unlike many other Impressionists, Camille Pissarro was concerned in his portraits to convey in a traditional manner something of the individual character of his sitters. Here he has captured his son in a pensive, as well as slightly bored or frustrated, attitude. His son went on to be a painter and engraver, but died at the age of only twenty-three from tuberculosis while living at Kew, London.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
13 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
2005-01-02
13 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
2005-01-02
2004-10-13
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK)
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
2004-10-13
The Pissarro Family at Home
Loan-out
5 June 2011 – 22 January 2012
2012-01-22
5 June 2011 – 2 October 2011
2011-10-02
2011-06-05
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, USA)
http://www.clarkart.edu/
22 October 2011 – 22 January 2012
2012-01-22
2011-10-22
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (San Francisco, USA)
http://www.famsf.org
2011-06-05
Pissarro's People
Loan-out
1 September 2021 – 12 June 2022
2022-06-12
4 September 2021 – 23 January 2022
2022-01-23
2021-09-04
Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
2021-09-01
Camille Pissarro. The Studio of Modernism
Loan-out
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
2025-05-01
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2025-05-01
National Gallery Bicentenary
Loan-out
Portrait of Felix Pissarro
support: 552 × 464 mm
Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1944
<p>This is a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the artist's third son, aged seven. Unlike many other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionists</span></a>, Camille Pissarro was concerned in his portraits to convey in a traditional manner something of the individual character of his sitters. Here he has captured his son in a pensive, as well as slightly bored or frustrated, attitude. His son went on to be a painter and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a>, but died at the age of only twenty-three from tuberculosis while living at Kew, London.</p>
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<p><b>Camille Pissarro</b><span> 1830-1903 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pissarro-portrait-of-felix-pissarro-n05574" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05574</span></a> </span><b>Portrait de Félix Pissarro</b><span> (Portrait of F?lix Pissarro) 1881 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'C. Pissarro | 1881' t.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 21 ¾ x 18 ¼ (54 x 46)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Lucien Pissarro to the National Gallery 1944; transferred 1950</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Mme Pissarro, Eragny; Lucien Pissarro, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Internationale de Peintures</i><span>, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May-June 1887 (2); </span><i>L'Oeuvre de Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1904 (64); </span><i>Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Galerie Eugène Blot, Paris, May-June 1907 (6); </span><i>Rétrospective des Oeuvres de Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Galerie Manzi et Joyant, Paris, January-February 1914 (62); </span><i>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, May 1920 (66); </span><i>Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1926 (works not numbered); </span><i>Centenaire de la Naissance de Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, February-March 1930 (53); </span><i>Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1931 (28); Birmingham City Art Gallery, October-November 1931 (21); Castle Museum, Nottingham, November-December 1931; War Memorial Art Gallery, Stockport, January 1932 (22); Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, February-March 1932 (24); Bootle Public Museum, April-May 1932 (21); Leeds City Art Gallery, July 1932 (9); Northampton Art Gallery, August-September 1932 (16); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, September 1932 (16); Rochdale Art Gallery, October-November 1932; </span><i>Fifty Years of Portraits</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, May-June 1935 (58, repr.); </span><i>C. Pissarro</i><span>, Stafford Gallery, London, May-June 1939 (14); </span><i>19th Century French Pictures</i><span>, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, April-June 1960 (43)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, </span><i>Camille Pissarro: son Art - son Oeuvre</i><span> (Paris 1939), No.550, Vol.1, p.159, repr. Vol.2, pl.114; John Rewald, </span><i>Camille Pissarro</i><span> (London 1963), p.128, repr. p.129 in colour</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
Charles Kunstler, </span><i>Camille Pissarro</i><span> (Paris 1930), pl.9 </span>
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<p><span>Félix Pissarro (1874-97), the artist's third son, known at home as Titi. He became a painter and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a>, and was considered exceptionally gifted, but he died at the age of only twenty-three from tuberculosis while living in London, at Kew. There are seven of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> and a selection of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> of him are Pissarro - Venturi Nos.620, 828 and 1553. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.610-11, reproduced p.610</span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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