Fishmarket (1902): Art, History and Details

Fishmarket (1902) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: Fishmarket
• Date: 1902
• Creator attribution: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
• Culture: France, 20th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2020.113

A detail from the museum

Pissarro painted this work from an upper level hotel room in Dieppe. He was suffering from a recurring eye infection at the time that prevented him from working outdoors.

Collection credit

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Catalogue, Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, 1924-1925. San Francisco: Press of the James H. Barry, 1924-1925.
• Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro; son art--son œuvre. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939.
• Matsukata korekushon meisaku senbatsuten zuroku. Tokyo: Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, 1960.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.