For a long time, Camille Pissarro was best known for his paintings from the 1880s, in which peasant girls tend cows, pick apples, wash dishes and shop at a poultry market. Rendered in a pointillist ...

These Impressionists, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Cézanne ... Only a handful of the paintings were sold, but the exhibition changed the course of art history.

In a letter to Pissarro in 1876, Cezanne wrote ... studies based on farm hands in Provence for the ‘Card Players’ paintings, and the group of paintings demonstrate his determined desire ...