A Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat
Camille Pissarro
c. 1892
Medium
pastel over charcoal on beige laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 60.4 x 34.8 cm (23 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef and Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke
Accession Number
1998.144.1
About the Artist
Camille Pissarro · 1831–1903
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) stands as the patriarch of Impressionism, the only artist to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and a mentor whose influence shaped the trajectory of modern art. Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas to a Jewish-Portuguese merchant family, he abandoned the family business to pursue painting, eventually settling in Paris i...