Camille Pissarro Museum – Musée Camille Pissarro (Pontoise)

(Last Update: 04.06.2025) Camille Pissarro Museumis a small but interesting museum for both art lovers and those who have been to Paris a few times and are now looking for something different. To visit this place, go a little outside of Paris, PontoiseYou need to go on a beautiful journey towards .

Pontoise, located 35-40 kilometers northwest of Paris (pontuaz) if it were up to me A remote suburb of Paris I would say, but according to the administrative management system here, it is considered a separate city. It has its own municipality and its own special management mechanisms.city“So it's one of those.

If you want to come to Pontoise by public transport Gare du Nord or Gare Saint Lazareby suburban train from or RER-C You can come with .

When you come to Pontoise Station, you leave the station and climb towards the church on the opposite hill and reach the historical center of the city. You have a few options to reach the Camille Pissarro Museum on foot: I recommend that you walk towards the church, turn right from where the hill starts, and go straight ahead. When you reach the end of the street, instead of turning right or left, go up the narrow and stony slope on the opposite right.

If you follow the path that always goes uphill when you climb up the hill, you will eventually find yourself at the door of the museum. Don't worry if you stray to other places, you will be enjoying your trip as if you were on holiday in a beautiful place far from Paris.

When you enter the garden of the Camille Pissarro Museum, you do not know whether to go in or tour the garden first. Here A petty bourgeois house remaining from Pontoise Castle, destroyed in 1742 Actually. At first glance at me Rodin's house in Meudon Even though it reminds me of it, I can say that it is even smaller than that. The Camille Pissarro Museum is located on the second floor of this house and seems very, very small compared to the giant museums we are used to seeing in Paris. In this aspect Museum of RomanceIt also reminds me of .

There may be periodic exhibitions downstairs. Therefore, the entrance fee varies depending on whether there are periodic exhibitions or not. If there is a periodic exhibition downstairs, of course it would be nice to visit there as well. It's a tiny place anyway... When I first visited this place in March 2015, it was free and the ground floor was closed; During my visit in April 2018, there was a seasonal exhibition downstairs and the museum was paid.

On our first visit to the Camille Pissarro Museum, the artist and his sons were seen in the main section on the upper floor. Lucien Pissarro, Georges Manzana-Pissarro et Ludovic-Rodo PissarroIn addition to the works of Daubigny, Guillaumin, Signac, Hayet, Piette's works were also exhibited, but on our second visit, this floor was arranged as a continuation of the exhibition downstairs. Therefore, I will not know what is on display when you go. Normally, the upper floor is the section where the works of Pissarro and the painters of his period are exhibited.

While visiting such meaningful and impressive museums, I wonder "why didn't I get a serious art history education?" I regret. Pissarro's Father of Impressionism I learned that it was called when I was first preparing this article for publication. I wish our art teachers, who at least tried to force us to draw pictures in art classes, would hang the picture of at least one world-famous painting on the blackboard and tell its short story every lesson while we were trying to draw; They would also have enabled us to encounter a beautiful work; Both our souls become richer and our cultural world deepens...

Of course, I considered myself lucky to have had the chance to examine Pissarro's works so closely in such a museum, in an extremely naive atmosphere, far away from the ostentatious museum presentations. During one of our holidays in the South of France Aix-en-ProvinceWhen we stopped by, I felt the same feelings I felt while visiting Cézanne's workshop house, which we came across by accident. Although I knew the importance of Cézanne at that time, I learned again while preparing this article that this time I was faced with the works of a painter who influenced Cézanne. Life is really interesting.

Camille Pissarro's life is also interesting. Pissarro was born in the Virgin Islands as the son of a Portuguese Jewish merchant father who later acquired French citizenship and a Caribbean native mother.. He also has Danish citizenship, but as far as I understand, this has something to do with the fact that the island where he was born was once Danish because of his mother. So life is both interesting and complicated.

Pissarro first comes to Paris and here he Ecole des Beaux-Artsin as well Academie SuisseHe is studying in. First, he became a famous painter from his teachers. Corotis affected by, and then Cezanne, Many ve WilliamHe becomes a painter who impresses. However, nowadays the tables to millions of euros Even though he was a sold-out painter, as is the common fate of many painters, he was not able to earn such a large income from his paintings during his lifetime. The painter, who spent a period of his life in Pontoise, actually spends most of his life in rural areas and vineyards. I don't know if we should attribute the peacefulness of his paintings to this. Grave of Camille Pissarro, who was born in 1830 and died in 1903 Père Lachaise CemeteryIt is located in .

We are only interested in the part of life that we perceive today. However, what we see today is actually based on what and where in the background... We are now in the museum of a painter who created wonderful paintings, and soon we will finish this small museum and visit the small garden. Everyone has experienced their share and taken their place on the stage of history; Let's see what we will experience and what position we will occupy on the stage of history when the day comes, or rather, will we have any place on that stage?

As I said, Camille Pissarro Museum is quite small. If you are coming to Pontoise just to see this museum, you must have a special interest in Pissarro, or at least impressionism. Or you must be one of those who like to explore every corner like me.

The museum also has a nice garden with a beautiful view. If it is not closed by accident, when you wander around the garden, you will be greeted with a pleasant view, as much as this small hill allows. In the future Seinewho will attain Oise (uaz) River flows slowly, life continues to be lived slowly in Pontoise. The world doesn't seem to be in any hurry.

Camille Pissarro Museum can be visited five days a week, except Mondays and Tuesdays, between 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00. You can find current information on the museum's own website.

After finishing the museum, you exit the door you came from and wind your way down again. What follows is the subject of the trip to Pontoise.

Pleasant trips, pleasant discoveries.

Web address: ville-pontoise.fr/le-musee-camille-pissarro

Address: 17 Rue du Château, 95300 Pontoise