“During his lifetime this great artist was not recognized
as he deserved to be. Modest and reserved, he was
never one to push himself forward; he spent in the
country a life of hard work and endeavor; far from the
big centers of art and detached from the coteries of
artists. He had to face many a difficult crisis and suffer
hard times, but, always a true artist, he never gave way
to despair, but preserved his strong enthusiasm, and
he never made concessions in his art.”
Lodovic Rodo Pissarro
—the artist’s son, in his introduction to
Camille Pissarro, L’oeuvre gravé et lithographié
, 1922.