A Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat
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
Rights
Public Domain
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...