A Woman Emptying a Wheelbarrow (Femme vidant une brouette)
Camille Pissarro
1880
Medium
aquatint with drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 31.8 x 23 cm (12 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 51.5 x 35.7 cm (20 1/4 x 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7311
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...