The Pissarro Family

ca. 1895
Not on view
With its intimate portraits of members of the Pissarro family, this lithograph gives insight into Luce's social and artistic circle. Luce and Pissarro met and became friends around 1890. They shared not only aesthetic, but also political commitments as supporters of the anarchist movement in France. Following the death of their child in 1895, Luce and his wife went to stay with the Pissarros in Eragny, when he likely made these portrait studies. Camille Pissarro appears twice, at upper right and upper center, surrounded by the four youngest of his eight children. Luce shows Félix Pissarro (1874–1897) at work on a print matrix at center left; Paul-Emile (1884–1972), the baby of the family, asleep at lower right; Ludovic-Rodolphe (1878–1952) wearing a hat above; and Jeanne (1881–1948) reading at center, also seen from a slightly different perspective at upper left. Although assembled together on the sheet, the figures all gaze downward, focused on individual tasks, giving them each a sense of isolated interiority.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Pissarro Family
  • Artist: Maximilien Luce (French, Paris 1858–1941 Paris)
  • Subject: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
  • Subject: Paul-Emile Pissarro
  • Subject: Rodo Pissarro
  • Date: ca. 1895
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 16 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (41 × 31.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018
  • Object Number: 2018.932
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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