# Fishmarket

**Camille Pissarro** (French, 1830–1903)  
1902  
oil on canvas  
Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.113. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.113).

## About this work

This impressive view of a bustling fish market belongs to a series of paintings that Pissarro made during the summer of 1902 depicting the harbor at Dieppe. Borrowing from the Impressionist method of portraying a modern city from a high vantage point, he enlivened the scene with rich, vibrant colors applied with energetic, broken brushstrokes. Ever concerned with the fleeting effects of atmosphere, Pissarro painted the interpenetration of industrial steam with the clouds in the brilliant, sunlit sky.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Camille Pissarro painted this in 1902, aged 72. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Camille Pissarro](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/camille-pissarro)

French, 1830–1903; born in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas; died in Paris

Pissarro was born on the Caribbean island of Saint Thomas and moved to France in 1855. Encouraged by Corot, he became the elder statesman of Impressionism, the only painter to show at all eight of the group’s exhibitions, and a generous mentor to Cézanne and Gauguin. He painted the villages and fields around Pontoise and Éragny, briefly adopted Seurat’s divided brushwork, and in his last decade made series of Paris, Rouen and Le Havre seen from hotel windows.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France, 20th century
- The artist was 72
- Real size: about 26 × 32 in (66 × 81 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 20th century
- Movement: [Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/impressionism)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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