A Woman Walking along a Country Road (La Femme sur la Route)
Camille Pissarro
1879
Medium
etching and aquatint with drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.4 x 20.6 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.) (irregular) sheet: 24 x 26.4 cm (9 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Liane W. Atlas
Accession Number
2010.119.1
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...