Pissarro

Name: Pissarro
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A Meeting on St. Thomas

Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark

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Strandberg Publishing
26 March 2026

Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

A meeting between Pissarro and a Danish Golden Age painter proved decisive for French Impressionism

This book adds another dimension to our knowledge of the emergence of French Impressionism. In approximately 1850, the later 'father' of French Impressionism, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) met the Danish painter Fritz Melbye (1826-69) in Pissarro's hometown on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, at that time a Danish colony. This book argues that Melbye is a 'missing link' between the Danish Golden Age and French Impressionism - and the now almost unknown Melbye thus had a significant influence on the beginning of Impressionism.

In 2017, the Ordrupgaard museum in Denmark held the exhibition Pissarro. A Meeting on St. Thomas on the occasion of the centenary of the sale of the Virgin Islands. This extended and revised book presents new research that the exhibition gave rise to.

By: Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark
Imprint: Strandberg Publishing
Country of Publication: Denmark
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9788792596536
ISBN 10: 8792596533
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 26 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark (b. 1950), director of Ordrupgaard Museum from 1995 to 2023, is the author and editor of many books on art and curator of, among several exhibitions, Pissarro: A Meeting on St. Thomas (2017).