a) The Cabbage Field (Le Champ de choux); b) The Cabbage Field (Le Champ de choux)
Camille Pissarro
c. 1880
Medium
a) graphite on wove paper; b) softground on wove paper
Dimensions
overall (approximate): 25 x 17 cm (9 13/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1963.11.174.a-b
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...